The Excel problem is not a problem, because the static version does not contain any formulas at all. It just complains that the version is different and wants to save to the newest Excel version. If you do that once, it disappears.
sansanjuan, I know that about the EDI acronym, though I was using the nickname long before I learned about it.
Oh, and the
Better Independents Mod v2.0 is available, so I might as well advertise that here too.