The best thing to do is have the sender save as .xls and then send.
Don't know if the converter works with 2000

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"dicentra4" wrote in message
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I can't download spreadsheets that are sent to me in .xlsx format. What's
the best thing to do? Please be specific and keep it simple; I'm computer
illiterate.