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 >