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Default 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
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"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.

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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


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