Data Migration

to transfer data from an old working document to a new template

Option 1) Don't

Most old working documents work fine without doing anything

Simply continue using your working document as it is.

Any new working documents that you create will start out with the foundation of your new template, but you will usually just keeping using your old working documents as they are (with the underlying base foundation of the older template).

Simple documents can be used even without the Legacy Compatibility Installer

Working documents created from simple legacy templates will work just fine even without the Legacy Compatibility Installer, which is needed only for more complex templates that have unique functions or macros.

If you see #NAME errors, then that means that you need to either:

1. install the Legacy Compatibility Installer to use that older document
2. or migrate the data to your new template

   (following the instructions in the section below)

When to install the Legacy Compatibility Installer

If you know that a user will need to use legacy documents created from a complex template version 10 or older...

then the Legacy Compatibility Installer should be installed for that user which will enable that user to use legacy documents (version 10 or older) without migrating data from the old working document to your new template.

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Reasons to Migrate Data

You don't NEED to migrate data from an old working document to a new template, but you might WANT to:

1. To take advantage of new features in the new template
2. Just to freshen up an old working document, and make its format consistent with your new ones
3. To have the latest translations for a newer sheet that you want to insert using Insert Sheet
4. Because you want to eliminate the need to install the Legacy Compatibility Installer for future upgrades

Tip: Because it has been so many years since version 11 was released in March 2013...
now is probably a good time to consult with Systems2win to come up with a plan to efficiently migrate data from any old working documents created using complex templates v10 or lower.

Once your data has been migrated, then none of your users will need Legacy Compatibility.

You NEED to migrate data:

1. If your working document is founded on a very old template (version 6 or lower), then there are a few templates (most commonly Job Instructions, or Standard Work) that have buttons that call macros that were discontinued in version 12, so you do NEED to migrate data for those very old working documents.
2. The Legacy Compatibility Installer requires the 32-bit version of Office, so if you are now using the 64-bit version of Office, then you need to either reinstall Office with the 32-bit version, or migrate your old working documents.

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how

How to transfer data

from an old working document to a new template

 

Unhide any hidden rows or columns

on both the source and destination worksheets.

Copy data from the old document

using simple copy CTRL+C

Paste to the new document

To copy shapes...

be sure that the source and destination sheets
have the same number of columns, all columns are unhidden, and column widths are identical

Tip: Paste Special > Column Widths can be helpful

Tip: The Select Objects Arrow makes it easy to select shapes to copy

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