Go to tools | options | transition |choose the save excel file as | ok
| close the excel file and reopen and try save as



On Jun 3, 8:20*pm, "John" wrote:
Something happened in my computer/Office and now the default in Save As is
XML...don't know where it came from, but I don't like it. I need to save my
files as XLS. Can someone tell me how fix that?

Thanks in advance.