Windows cannot open the file because Works does not include Excel, however
the Works spreadsheet can open Excel files (after a fashion) from the File
open menu of that application and Word can open it if you have the
appropriate Excel filter installed - see file open and check the file
types. If the filter is not installed, re-run setup from Windows control
panel add & remove programs and add it.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Stringbean wrote:
I am running Win XP Home, MSWks Suite 2004. It uses Word 2002 for the
word processor. The president of our organization appears to be using
Office whatever and sent me a copy of what he did and it has the .xls
suffix. My machine tells me that Windows cannot open this file. If a
converter/translater doesn't exist then we have a problem on the
order of the one Houston had.

Please advise