why does an Excel email attachment change file name when opened.

Has anyone come across this before? The attached Excel spreadsheet is sent
via Novel Groupwise email and when opening the sheet the file name changes.

In all likelihood, the email attachement is stored on the email server, which
neither Excel nor you can access directly. When you attempt to open the
email attachement, the email application retrieves the file from the email
server and saves it in a temporary file on your hard drive. Does the file
have a name like ~561461.xls?

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro


"tpayne" wrote:

> Has anyone come across this before? The attached Excel spreadsheet is sent
> via Novel Groupwise email and when opening the sheet the file name changes.

I apologize that this is an old thread but it describes exactly what's happening to me - it renames my files to something like AEV3486.xls. I am using Outlook 2010 and Excel 2010.