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.dat file extension
Why did an excel file (97 I think) which was e-mailed to me come in with a
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spock
If you're email client is Outlook Express and the file was set by Outlook(ms office) in RTF format you will get the *.dat file because OE cannot handle RTF. Ask the sender to post in "plain text" format. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:45:05 -0800, "spock" wrote: Why did an excel file (97 I think) which was e-mailed to me come in with a .dat file extension? |
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