First, that other agency may have another spreadsheet program that can open
excel files.

Or you may want to verify what type of files they can open and send in that
format.

In fact, Microsoft offers a free xl2003 viewer at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/of...347961033.aspx

Or they may want to use a free spreadsheet program. One of these can be found
at OpenOffice.org.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

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If you send the workbook via:
File|Send To|Mail Recipient
You're sending the worksheet embedded in the email. And it sure looks like
excel embeds the worksheet using HTML--it's not really a worksheet in a workbook
anymore.

You could either remove the password protection or maybe send the whole workbook
(using one of the options above).

swellett wrote:

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Send it as an attachment, but send it as a *.xls file--a real workbook????

One of the several agencies to which the the spreadsheet is e-mailed, does
not use Excel, and cannot open '.xls' attachments.

There is no HTML code present in the spreadsheet, so does Excel use/insert
HTML upon sending?

BTW, I'm using Excel 2000 Premium.

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Dave Peterson