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Nicholas Engelking
I createsd an Excel workbook on a Mac and emailed it to my
self. The atchment is .dat (but that may have just been
added by my email program as macs don't have file
extensions, Ithink). I cannot open it in Excel XP running
on Windows XP. I tried renaming it .xls and various other
excel extensions but it still tells me that it dosen't
recognize the file. If I open it in a text editor, I can
clearly see many of the custom number formats, names,
lables, and some cell values I used in the file, as well
as formating for a graph I encluded, the name of the
worksheets and meaningless characters (which I assume
serve some purpose to excel). The make up looks very
similar to when I open a workable excel spreadsheet in a
text editor. Onviously there is a problem with my file
extension and/or file format. The file seems to contain
the data and I don't think it is corrupted, it just won't
open in Excel. There seem to have been other examples of
people wanting to open a .dat file they say was created in
excel on this forum, yet no solution was ever posted and
no mention of a possible Mac origin of the file was
mentioned. If anyone can help me with this or has
encountered a similar problem, I would love to here any
opinions you might have.
self. The atchment is .dat (but that may have just been
added by my email program as macs don't have file
extensions, Ithink). I cannot open it in Excel XP running
on Windows XP. I tried renaming it .xls and various other
excel extensions but it still tells me that it dosen't
recognize the file. If I open it in a text editor, I can
clearly see many of the custom number formats, names,
lables, and some cell values I used in the file, as well
as formating for a graph I encluded, the name of the
worksheets and meaningless characters (which I assume
serve some purpose to excel). The make up looks very
similar to when I open a workable excel spreadsheet in a
text editor. Onviously there is a problem with my file
extension and/or file format. The file seems to contain
the data and I don't think it is corrupted, it just won't
open in Excel. There seem to have been other examples of
people wanting to open a .dat file they say was created in
excel on this forum, yet no solution was ever posted and
no mention of a possible Mac origin of the file was
mentioned. If anyone can help me with this or has
encountered a similar problem, I would love to here any
opinions you might have.