WHEN I SEND AN EXCEL FILE WHY DOES IT CONVERT TO .DAT FILE?
 

MY OFFICE IS TRYING TO SEND ME A SPREADSHEET AND THEY ARE USING EXCEL BUT I
CAN'T OPEN IT BECAUSE I RECIEVE IT AS A .DAT FILE

Rename your file. If the received file is data.dat, rename it to data.xls
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Gary's Student


"SLALLEN53" wrote:

MY OFFICE IS TRYING TO SEND ME A SPREADSHEET AND THEY ARE USING EXCEL BUT I
CAN'T OPEN IT BECAUSE I RECIEVE IT AS A .DAT FILE

It's not a good idea to type in all caps, it's as if you're yelling.

Try renaming the file to .xls. Maybe the office's server is doing
something to the file extension.

HTH

Here's a previous discussion that might help:

http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...F2CC%40msn.com

SLALLEN53 wrote:

MY OFFICE IS TRYING TO SEND ME A SPREADSHEET AND THEY ARE USING EXCEL BUT I
CAN'T OPEN IT BECAUSE I RECIEVE IT AS A .DAT FILE

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Dave Peterson