Re: HTML encoded spreadsheets?

[Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly burnett-hall co uk>]

David Stanaway wrote:
> Maybe my vendor is going out of their way to make a dodgy
> file? EG, save as web page, then renaming the file to .xls and ignoring
> the warning.

From your description of what you're receiving, it sounds like they are 
going (in Excel) 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> 'Mail recipient'.  This 
starts a new message in Outlook, converting the current spreadsheet to 
HTML and bunging it in the message body.  The resulting message is 
useless even if you have Excel.

[Note, I don't have Excel here so can't check this, but it sounds like 
the type of format you get from this]

The simplest way to fix this is by taking your clue stick and gently 
persuading them to use 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> Mail recipient (as 
attachment)' instead.

- olly