Errors opening Excel 2007 spreadsheets in Excel 2010

When I try to open spreadsheets created in Excel 2007 with Excel 2010, I get the error: "Excel found unreadable contenct in 'file name'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click
Yes". Then a Repairs dialog box comes up saying: "Excel completed file level validation and repair. Some parts of this workbook may have been repaired or discarded. Removed Part: Print options." File then opens fine.
We receive Excel 2007 from various sources. One of my problem is that we are just starting to migrate people to Windows 7 and Office 2010, with most people still on Office XP. The file format converter for Excel 2002/2003 does not work with these
Excel 2007 files. The other problem is that we have macros that are used to open Excel files and import data into other Excel files. Pretty hard to modify these macros to allow for some files that are going to pop up this error, and others that
do not.
What is causing this problem, and what fix is available? We have asked that people save the Excel files in Excel 97-03 format before sending to us, with mixed results.

Hi,
Thank you for using Excel IT Pro Discussions forum.
Are you using Office 2010 RTM version? If it is trial version or beta version, I suggest upgrading it to the RTM version.
First, please check if this KB article helps:
Error message when you try to open a workbook in Excel 2007: "Excel found unreadable content in Book_Name"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929766
Note: The steps are for Excel 2007. The steps in Excel 2010 are similar.
If the problem persists, let’s also check the following settings in Excel 2010.
========
1.
In Excel 2010, click File > Options > Trust Center > File block settings.
2.
Check the checkboxes before:
Excel 2007 and later Wordbooks and Templates
Excel 2007 and later Macro-Enabled Workbooks and Templates
Excel 2007 and later Add-in Files
Excel 2007 and later Binary Workbooks
Then, try to open the Excel 2007 file in Excel 2010 and check the results again.
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