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i have a mac question - someone has sent me an excel file from a PC. but for some reason the extension is showing up as

Posted by Andie (aka Andie) Oct 20 '08, 06:15

.xls.xlsx

how can i just RENAME it? it won't let me open it with Excel because it 'doesn't recognize the format', which is know is just excel? (and, i can usually open things from her.)

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It might be from office 2007 Their extentions now have x's at the end -- nm - lileve Oct 20, 06:22 1
- which you can turn off, and have them saved as regular .doc or .xls files if you know the recipient doesn't have Office 2007 -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 06:41
its the newest version of Excel - you need a converter -- nm - decline Oct 20, 06:16 4
- there is an windows converter you can get from microsoft, but for mac I found - decline Oct 20, 06:19 3
  - I think this is supposed to work (link inside) - Guigue Oct 20, 06:24 2
    - thanks. -- nm - Andie Oct 20, 06:29
    - Or get open office. -- nm - lileve Oct 20, 06:26

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