I saved files onto a memory stick from excel. Now that I need them they are
showing up with xlxs as the extension and I can't get them to open. What is
this?

Do you really mean xlxs?
If it were xlsx, it would be Excel 2007.

Excel 2007 compatibility pack for Excel 2003 users:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923505
Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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David Biddulph

"Sue" wrote in message
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I saved files onto a memory stick from excel. Now that I need them they
are
showing up with xlxs as the extension and I can't get them to open. What
is
this?

Did you mean .xlsx?

If you did, then this is a new fileformat in xl2007. It means that there are no
macros saved in the workbook (.xlsm means that there's a macro).

If you're using xl2002 or xl2003, you could use the compatibility pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

If you're not using xl2002, you could go back to the original pc and save the
workbook in the older fileformat (.xls).



Sue wrote:

I saved files onto a memory stick from excel. Now that I need them they are
showing up with xlxs as the extension and I can't get them to open. What is
this?

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Dave Peterson

That's the file extension for Excel 2007.

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"Sue" wrote:

I saved files onto a memory stick from excel. Now that I need them they are
showing up with xlxs as the extension and I can't get them to open. What is
this?