Suggest that they copy the attached document to the hard drive or desktop,
then try to open it from with the Excel application, by selecting File-Open
and navigating to the attachment.

"teresamcallister" wrote in
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I have 2003 XP on my computer and have recently discovered when I email
excel
documents to other users who have different version of microsoft, they are
unable to open my document, why is this, and why are these documents not
compatible