black1282 wrote: > I have been doing a big of digging and it seems to be a known bug... > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13822 The last two comments in that bug report do describe the problem you're reporting, but I'm not convinced it's really the same bug as the one originally reported. I was able to reproduce the behavior once, but now I can't. What I did, experimenting, is save an xls file as xlsx, then resave it as xls. I have no idea why, but after doing that once, Excel 2007 now seems able to save xls files just fine. Give it a try and let me know what happens.