As a starting point for troubleshooting....................

Do you have MS Excel and PowerPoint installed on your computer?

If you right-click on a *.xls file and "Open With" what program options are you
given?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:30:00 -0800, vdjjj
wrote:

when I try to open the xls or pps extensions it says open then it says check
out the file folder for help but it doesnt tell me what to put in there to
open extensions. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Don