re: Cannot open .xls attachment Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 5:16 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan (3 messages posted) Hi, Just post to hope this still can help in the future. I just faced similar problem and it truned out be a corrupted xls file. To repair it, I tried a utility called Advanced Excel Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/. It works rather well. Next time anyone who has similar problem may have try. Alan On Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 1:21 pm, Bob H. wrote: >Having difficulty opening an .xls attachment on an e-mail. I have M/S Works Suite >2000 which uses Notepad to open .xls documents. The attachment opens but it appears >as a series of strange symbols (not letters); looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics. >I have been receiving this e-mail (with .xls attachment) twice monthly for the last >4 years and never had a problem. No changes have been made to my computer, HOWEVER, >I just switched my ISP (from AT&T Worldnet to EarthLink). > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Written in response to: Cannot open .xls attachment (Bob H.: Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 1:21 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Cannot open .xls attachment (Bob H.: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 1:21 pm) re: Cannot open .xls attachment (Carl: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 4:36 pm) re: Cannot open .xls attachment (gewg_: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 5:24 pm) re: Cannot open .xls attachment (Paul D: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 10:18 pm) re: Cannot open .xls attachment (Bob H.: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 6:47 am) re: Cannot open .xls attachment (Alan: Sat, May 10, 2008, 5:16 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum