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New MBP with both iWork08 and portions of Office 2008 (Excel).
My company send me my work pattern on an Excel spreadsheet which happily open in either Numbers or Excel.
However, (there's always a 'however' isn't there?) I download the .xls file into my Download directory. When I look for the file I notice that it has sprouted an 'xla' suffix in addition to 'xls'.
That is instead of being 'whatever.xls' it's now 'whatever.xls.xla' and then opens in Numbers as a default.
I've been into the Get Info and changed the 'xla' (by deletion) and then selected Excel to universally open the remaining 'xls' file.
But (being new) I haven't managed to find a way to prevent the 'xla' being added in the first place.
I realise I need help and the 'Missing Manual' is waiting for me at home in UK, unfortunately I am in Lagos and don't get home for another 12 days or so.
What am I doing wrong?
My company send me my work pattern on an Excel spreadsheet which happily open in either Numbers or Excel.
However, (there's always a 'however' isn't there?) I download the .xls file into my Download directory. When I look for the file I notice that it has sprouted an 'xla' suffix in addition to 'xls'.
That is instead of being 'whatever.xls' it's now 'whatever.xls.xla' and then opens in Numbers as a default.
I've been into the Get Info and changed the 'xla' (by deletion) and then selected Excel to universally open the remaining 'xls' file.
But (being new) I haven't managed to find a way to prevent the 'xla' being added in the first place.
I realise I need help and the 'Missing Manual' is waiting for me at home in UK, unfortunately I am in Lagos and don't get home for another 12 days or so.
What am I doing wrong?