Does mail format mean that you see the address boxes at the top?

If it does, maybe just toggling this off would be easier.

File|Send to|Mail Recipient

(that icon in front of "mail recipient" is difficult to decipher, but it can be
toggled up or toggled down.)

Help Hey wrote:

When I have outlook open and I then try and open a excel file it opens in a
mail format and try as I have I can't find the setting to stop it from doing
so. Please help because it is really frustrating and laborious having to
close outlook just to open a excel file normally.

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Dave Peterson