Detach the file to someplace on your hard drive.
In Excel use file open and select the file.
There is a good chance that the file does not have the .xls extension.
When you go to save it. I would add the proper extension.

"big t" wrote:

i have a spread sheet in my email as a attachment but can't open it as
windows does not know what program created it what do i do?
i'm running windows xp