[P1] Why...might be OT

patdart patdart at cox-internet.com
Wed Oct 29 11:53:06 PST 2003


I tried that, but when it didn't work...gave me a formatting error, I 
called and sure enough the fellow had received it via email and not 
having Excel, had saved it as a word doc.  He just sent the email to me 
and this should work.

Thanks to all for your help!

Pat
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Paul Bernhardt wrote:

> No. ending in ".doc" is for Word files... change the file name to end 
> in ".xls" and you should be able to get it to open in Excel... silly, 
> yes, for us old Mac heads who remember the good old days when a 
> program knew what was supposed to open it by internal mechanisms... 
> easily the worst mistake of OSX was losing that feature.
>
> Paul
>



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