File format no longer supported

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This page is specific to the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Language Reference for Office 2010.

Not all file formats are readable under all circumstances. This error has the following cause and solution:

  • You are trying to load a binary file created with an earlier version of Visual Basic. Load the file into the version of Visual Basic with which the file was created, save it in text format, then try to load it again.

For additional information, select the item in question and press F1 (in Windows) or HELP (on the Macintosh).