Excel has no "normal template" but Word has.

Sound like you opened the Excel files using Word and saved as Word documents.

If so, your Excel files are gone.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:09:00 -0800, jackievar
wrote:

I'm trying to open a doc that I just saved to Excel and it's opening encoded
as everything else I save in Excel.

I answered "yes" when the prompt to save normal template came on. Could
this be the answer? And if so, how do I change the files back to regular
documents?

Thanks for your help.