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Old April 12th, 2010, 10:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
La Blonde
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I received an attachment recently, which, when I opened it, appeared as
gobbledegook- I have Windows xp and Offfice 2000 & it seems the attachment
was written in Office 2007. I forwarded the e mail and attachment to another
computer and it appeared as normal, but the second computer does have Office
2007.
I have never ever had this problem before. What has happened-do I need to
upgrade to Office 2007 or later?
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Old April 12th, 2010, 11:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
RonaldoOneNil
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Not necessarily, you just need to tell the people who send you office
attachments to save them in compatibility mode so that your version of office
can read them.

"La Blonde" wrote:

I received an attachment recently, which, when I opened it, appeared as
gobbledegook- I have Windows xp and Offfice 2000 & it seems the attachment
was written in Office 2007. I forwarded the e mail and attachment to another
computer and it appeared as normal, but the second computer does have Office
2007.
I have never ever had this problem before. What has happened-do I need to
upgrade to Office 2007 or later?

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Old April 12th, 2010, 04:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.newusers
Gord Dibben
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Another guess................

Have the sender send the file as "Plain Text" rather than "Rich Text
Format".


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:46:01 -0700, La Blonde La
wrote:

I received an attachment recently, which, when I opened it, appeared as
gobbledegook- I have Windows xp and Offfice 2000 & it seems the attachment
was written in Office 2007. I forwarded the e mail and attachment to another
computer and it appeared as normal, but the second computer does have Office
2007.
I have never ever had this problem before. What has happened-do I need to
upgrade to Office 2007 or later?


 




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