I think you are missing the point that those dot extension names are what
tell windows which application to launch to open the file.
"Vic Abrahamian" <VicAbrahamian@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> When I open an attachment in Outlook and save it, Windows recognized the
> file type. For example if the attachment is an Excel document, it saves as
> Excel Document, but if I try to save the document with a different name,
> Windows doesn't recognize the file. For example the attachment was xyz.xls
> and I save it as abc, and then try to double click on it to open the file,
> I
> receives a message select an application to use to open the file. On the
> old
> system with XP and Office 2003, I didn't have to type the 3 letter
> extension
> when saving a file, is there a way to make it work without having to type
> the
> 3 letter extension? Thank you