Alright, I recently rec'd 2 emails with attachments that end in .xls. I saved in My Doc and scanned for viruses then tried to open and I get a pop up saying I need to create an application to open. So I go to My Doc, View and Folder options and don't know what to do next. My computer is only 2 years old. Help!

.xls extension is a Microsoft Excel document - and since you didn't even know it was an excel document, and did not expect it, I suppose it could be containing of the macro viruses that infect computers through different Microsoft Office applications.

If you did expect someone to send you a spreadsheet, and you do have Excel, simplest would be just to reinstall it, since it should not loose it's file associations in the first place.

Ohhh, alrighty! Well this is someone I do know that is sending me the attachment. It's an organization biz related thing that an administrator is sending. No, I don't have Excel so is it hopeless? I've written back to my admin about it and after plainly explaining what is wrong she still thinks I'm talking about that I've lost it and can't remember where I put it sort of thing!! Ughhh!!! You've already been more help than her!!!

Originally posted by Lilypadsmom
Ohhh, alrighty! Well this is someone I do know that is sending me the attachment. It's an organization biz related thing that an administrator is sending. No, I don't have Excel so is it hopeless? I've written back to my admin about it and after plainly explaining what is wrong she still thinks I'm talking about that I've lost it and can't remember where I put it sort of thing!! Ughhh!!! You've already been more help than her!!!

Oh that makes sense :) if you do not have excel, ask her to save the data as plain tab-delimited text or an html document (so you can view it in the browser). Excel has both of these options :)

Edited to correct a smaaall spelling mistake :)

renata, You're Good.

:D

Another thing you can try is this:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/xlviewer.aspx

...this will allow you to VIEW the Excel Spreadsheet, but I don't think it will allow you to edit it.

Good Luck,

There is an opensource program called OpenOffice that is identical to Microsoft office in every respect. It opens all the MS standard formats with a bonus...it's free and cross-platform so you can edit the documents, do word, calculator, excel, HTML editing, etc.
Here's the link:
http://www.openoffice.org/

HTH!:)

Originally posted by APDaddy
renata, You're Good.
(snip)


Thanks :D

Surfer Girl, NICE LINK.