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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 |
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Rename your file. If the received file is data.dat, rename it to data.xls
-- 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 |
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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 |
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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 -- Dave Peterson |
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