Excel file transfer to another pc

[ipbr21054]

For a while now I’ve been using Excel from Office 2007 on A Windows 7 pro pc.

I’ve now bought a pc which has Windows 10 pro installed.

My question is that I would like to continue using all my files that are saved in various places on the Win 7 pc & move / copy over to the Win 10 pc.

Also with regards my settings in excel how do I go about this.
I mean if I fresh install office on the Win 10 pc all my settings will be reset to default.

Can I somehow collect setting info & transfer over ??

Thanks.

 

[6StringJazzer]

I would like to continue using all my files that are saved in various places on the Win 7 pc & move / copy over to the Win 10 pc.

If I am reading your question correctly, you just want to copy files from one PC to another. What's the part that's giving you trouble? Do you want them to be in the same relative locations? How is the data organized on your Win 7 PC? You can copy everything to a USB drive then transfer it; use a cloud storage service like OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive; you can set them up to communicate on the same LAN and transfer them directly.

my settings in excel

Excel settings are not just located in one place where you can save all the settings and copy them to another computer. Can you be specific about what settings you mean? Off the top of my head, the settings I would want are Ribbon and QAT customizations, PERSONAL.xlsb file. Those are fairly easy to port. I do not know how you would save and port options set in Options. There are also things like the file history and pinned files.

I’ve now bought a pc which has Windows 10 pro installed.

BTW I figured all new PCs ship with Windows 11 now. Support for Windows 10 is ending this October.

 

[ipbr21054]

I was thinking that there might be a tool etc that would collect the files from the various locations etc.

Also changes I made in the software itself.
Didn’t know if I just had to install office again on the Win 10 pc

I might just even put all the files in a folder on the desktop of the new Pc.

All the paths in the code for opening files etc will now all be broken.

 

[ipbr21054]

Just read the last part.
Yes I have Windows 10
I did see a message about Windows 11 & I did read that all Windows would support all Office etc.
I can do a new install etc no problem.
Just trying to get my head around what to do about all my code paths now going to be broken.

 

[6StringJazzer]

All the paths in the code for opening files etc will now all be broken.

That goes beyond the question in your first post. Sorry to say that is a result of the amount of coding experience. But you can set up a folder structure that is exactly the same as the old PC and copy your files into that structure. That shouldn't be hard.

 

[ipbr21054]

One thing I did notice in the path is.

Say old path is C, USERS, NOW MY NAME.

On the new Pc it’s as follows.

C, USERS, THERE ?

There, That’s a bit odd.