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Hi, I wrote about 2hours ago, but can explain a bit better
now about not being able to open an email attachment my
sister sent me. I have XP home edition, my sister has a
Macintosh computer and sent an XL spreadsheet attachment.
I have this attachment icon looks like sheet of white
paper with right upper corner turned over and little
coloured rows on it - when I try and open tells me it's an
unknown application with ".dat" on the of the file
name. I tried changing the name to .xls and .doc as
instructed by my sister - didn't work just keeps having
like .xls.dat .doc.dat - can't get rid of "dat ting".
Now I'm thinking my computer may not have XL spreadsheet
as it's a home edition, but I don't know, never needed it.
But because home-edition may not have it, my computer
can't recognise it - is that right? Is there anything I
can do to be able to open the spreadsheet? I've had a
computer 3months and only had 2 attachments that I've been
able to open OK before. (after help from here about
unchecking a box in security).
Thankyou so much, regards, Lyn
 
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Lyn from Oz said:
Hi, I wrote about 2hours ago, but can explain a bit better
now about not being able to open an email attachment my
sister sent me. I have XP home edition, my sister has a
Macintosh computer and sent an XL spreadsheet attachment.
I have this attachment icon looks like sheet of white
paper with right upper corner turned over and little
coloured rows on it - when I try and open tells me it's an
unknown application with ".dat" on the of the file
name. I tried changing the name to .xls and .doc as
instructed by my sister - didn't work just keeps having
like .xls.dat .doc.dat - can't get rid of "dat ting".
Now I'm thinking my computer may not have XL spreadsheet
as it's a home edition, but I don't know, never needed it.
But because home-edition may not have it, my computer
can't recognise it - is that right?
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It would seem from the above that you trying to run a program
that isn't installed on your computer.

There is no product called "XL spreadsheet." Microsoft makes two
spreadsheet programs, Excel, which can be bought either
stand-alone or as part of Microsoft Office, and a lesser
spreadsheet program that's part of Microsoft Works.

The reason you don't have these has nothing to do with your
having XP Home Edition. They don't come with Professional Edition
either. Neither Windows XP nor any other version of Windows has
ever come with Excel or with any other significant application
software.

Is there anything I
can do to be able to open the spreadsheet?
Click to expand...


Microsoft has a free Excel viewer you can download at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-91DA-4110-8595-4A960D3E1C7C&displaylang=en
That will permit you to view Excel spreadsheets, but not create
or modify them.
 
Office software such as spreadsheets and word processors are NOT part of the
operating system. They must be purchased and installed separately.
 
Lyn said:
Hi, I wrote about 2hours ago, but can explain a bit better
now about not being able to open an email attachment my
sister sent me. I have XP home edition, my sister has a
Macintosh computer and sent an XL spreadsheet attachment.
I have this attachment icon looks like sheet of white
paper with right upper corner turned over and little
coloured rows on it - when I try and open tells me it's an
unknown application with ".dat" on the of the file
name. I tried changing the name to .xls and .doc as
instructed by my sister - didn't work just keeps having
like .xls.dat .doc.dat - can't get rid of "dat ting".
Click to expand...

I just tested about the rename (ting).
Anyway the way to do the rename thing is to;
(In Internet Explorer), Goto; 'Menu Bar'
'Tools' menu,
Click 'Folder Options',
Select 'View' tab,
*Untick* 'Hide extensions for known file types' (at bottom of view!),
Click 'Apply' and OK.

You will now be able to see the present extentions for your file and alter
it.
Now I'm thinking my computer may not have XL spreadsheet
Click to expand...

I presume that you mean Excell (MS spreadsheet program).
If you do not have 'Excell' installed on your machine, then a free 'viewer'
can be downloaded from Microsoft (I don't know URL, but believe someone else
has given it in this thread).
as it's a home edition, but I don't know, never needed it.
But because home-edition may not have it, my computer
can't recognise it - is that right? Is there anything I
can do to be able to open the spreadsheet? I've had a
computer 3months and only had 2 attachments that I've been
able to open OK before. (after help from here about
unchecking a box in security).
Thankyou so much, regards, Lyn
Click to expand...

As pointed out by others Excell isn't included with any XP edition.
 
Patrick said:
I just tested about the rename (ting).
Anyway the way to do the rename thing is to;
(In Internet Explorer), Goto; 'Menu Bar'
'Tools' menu,
Click 'Folder Options',
Select 'View' tab,
*Untick* 'Hide extensions for known file types' (at bottom of view!),
Click 'Apply' and OK.

You will now be able to see the present extentions for your file and
alter it.


I presume that you mean Excell (MS spreadsheet program).
If you do not have 'Excell' installed on your machine, then a free
'viewer' can be downloaded from Microsoft (I don't know URL, but
believe someone else has given it in this thread).


As pointed out by others Excell isn't included with any XP edition.
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Goto the page below for free downloadable 'Excell viewer';

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-91DA-4110-8595-4A960D3E1C7C&displaylang=EN

or if above link dosn't work use the (shortened) one below;

http://tinyurl.com/5cdl
 
Hi, I wrote about 2hours ago, but can explain a bit better
now about not being able to open an email attachment my
sister sent me. I have XP home edition, my sister has a
Macintosh computer and sent an XL spreadsheet attachment.
I have this attachment icon looks like sheet of white
paper with right upper corner turned over and little
coloured rows on it - when I try and open tells me it's an
unknown application with ".dat" on the of the file
name. I tried changing the name to .xls and .doc as
instructed by my sister - didn't work just keeps having
like .xls.dat .doc.dat - can't get rid of "dat ting".
Now I'm thinking my computer may not have XL spreadsheet
as it's a home edition, but I don't know, never needed it.
But because home-edition may not have it, my computer
can't recognise it - is that right? Is there anything I
can do to be able to open the spreadsheet? I've had a
computer 3months and only had 2 attachments that I've been
able to open OK before. (after help from here about
unchecking a box in security).
Thankyou so much, regards, Lyn
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Lyn, this may be an email issue. Example: Email sent with older versions of
Outlook used to show up in other email clients with a winmail.DAT file
attached. This was the original message as sent (extra formatting, colors,
etc were included in this). What showed up in the receiver's email window
was a plain text version.

Does your sister have a little bit of webspace that her ISP makes available
to her? If yes, she could upload that file to that space so that you can
download it.
 
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