WHEN I SEND AN EXCEL FILE WHY DOES IT CONVERT TO .DAT FILE?

SLALLEN53 · 08-22-2005, 01:05 PM

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

Gary's Student · 08-22-2005, 02:05 PM

Rename your file. If the received file is data.dat, rename it to data.xls
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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

DNA · 08-22-2005, 02:05 PM

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

Dave Peterson · 08-22-2005, 04:05 PM

Here's a previous discussion that might help:

http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...F2CC%40msn.com

SLALLEN53 wrote:
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> 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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Dave Peterson

**sara.leonard** · 09-13-2012, 11:17 AM

What if you can't even open the file?

**arlu1201** · 09-13-2012, 11:21 AM

Sara,

Welcome to the Forum, unfortunately:

Your post does not comply with Rule 2 of our Forum RULES. Don't post a question in the thread of another member -- start your own thread. If you feel it's particularly relevant, provide a link to the other thread. It makes sense to have a new thread for your question because a thread with numerous replies can be off putting & difficult to pick out relevant replies.