MowerMike
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I just don't get the option to change the ".txt" to something else when I open or try to save these documents.
as I said before, I just don't get the option to change the ".txt" to something else when I open or try to save / rename these documents.
I did try re-naming by adding a ".xls" to the end of one of them, but it just became part of the name instead of changing the file type.
I also have Win XP & 7 computers here at work and could not change the file type in these systems either.
Doug
Did you try changing the extension from txt to ods ? Note, you must change the extension, not just add to it. So filename.txt becomes filename.ods, not filename.txt.ods. Anyways, I was able to change it to filename.ods, then double click on the file and it opened properly in Excel. As soon as I changed the extension to ods, the file was flagged in my file manager as an Excel type. I then closed it immediately when it asked me to activate Excel using my MS account name, which would have resulted in money being sucked out of my bank account.
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