Oops, sorry. I keep forgetting you put the message in first...then you hit the send button. Anyway, in answer to your question, my partner works on a PC and I work on an iBook (obviously). She's always emailing me Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and they always open in the correct program when I get them. And no, virtually nothing is OT on this list. Brian On 10/28/03 2:36 PM, "patdart" <patdart at cox-internet.com> wrote: > won't an excel file from a PC open only in Word, not Excel on my iBook? > I need it to open in Excel so I can work with it. Any thoughts? It > was burned to a floppy. > > If this OT, I'm sorry.