Re: HTML encoded spreadsheets?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:45:12AM +0100, Oliver Burnett-Hall wrote:
> 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.

Thank you.