Do you have Excel or the free Excel Viewer installed? If so, are you
able to save the attachment, then open the saved document outside of
Windows Mail?
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"frd5116@xxxxxx" <frd5116@xxxxxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I cannot open an attachment ending in .xls. error states ' file does not
> have a program associated with it" i tried to create an association but
> still cannot open the spreadsheet. what am i doing wrong?
>
> Fred