On 27/11/13 09:46, Mark Rogers wrote:
Can you clarify which file type you saved in? You said spreadsheet so I assume either LibreOffice's default Open Document Format (file with a .ods extension), Excel's not-really-open-but-we-like-to-pretend-it-is format (.xlsx, I think?) or Excel's older format (.xls). I believe you can save as .xml (ie an XML file) but that would be unusual (if it's a genuine XML file then any web browser such as Firefox should be able to open it), and having done so it probably wouldn't really qualify as a being a "spreadsheet" any more. However, an XML attachment in an email might well "confuse" TBird.
It's definitely an .xml file (Excel 2003 file type apparently). I get an input/output error message if I try opening it in Libre Office. The people I shared this file with could open it though but it is sensitive so I can’t share it more widely, sorry.
I've just tried sticking some nonsense in another doc but saving it as xls and it recognises it. (Right icon on Desktop rather than vague </> which tells you nothing.) So I think the lesson here is never use .xml because it's useless for this purpose anyway. Ah well.
Bev.