opening attachments

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I receive several attachments daily that end with.sea
or.xls or .ppt and cannot figure out how to open them! I
have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 but it isn't opening these files.
Some one please help me!

 

[Chris Lanier]

Maybe try....

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in Outlook Express After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329570

 

[Rich Barry]

xls is Excel and ppt is Power Point. If you have any more that you
don't know. Go here.

-- http://filext.com/

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I receive several attachments daily that end with.sea
or.xls or .ppt and cannot figure out how to open them! I
have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 but it isn't opening these files.
Some one please help me!

Acrobat would not be able to open these..

You apparenty don't have the applications that the attachements are from.
..sea is probably an encrypted attachment (stands for Secure Email
Attachment) and you don't have the encryption utility. Contact the
person who sent you the attachment and ask them what they are using - you
will likely need their public key to open the thing, anyway.

..XLS and .PPT are Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and you
apparently don't have Microsoft Office installed. You'll need that, or an
equivalent package that can read them, to open the attachments. The
proper install will set the system up.

If, however, you *do* have those installed and the attachments are greyed
out in Outlook Express, in Outlook Express go to Tools, Options, the
Security tab, and de-select "do not allow attachments to be saved or
opened". Click Apply, OK, exit Outlook Express and restart it. You should
now have access to the attachments.

HTH
-pk

 

[Jim Macklin]

You can get a free file viewer from Microsoft that will open
PowerPoint or Excel files.


| | > I receive several attachments daily that end with.sea
| > or.xls or .ppt and cannot figure out how to open them! I
| > have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 but it isn't opening these files.
| > Some one please help me!
|
| Acrobat would not be able to open these..
|
| You apparenty don't have the applications that the
attachements are from.
| .sea is probably an encrypted attachment (stands for
Secure Email
| Attachment) and you don't have the encryption utility.
Contact the
| person who sent you the attachment and ask them what they
are using - you
| will likely need their public key to open the thing,
anyway.
|
| .XLS and .PPT are Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint
presentations, and you
| apparently don't have Microsoft Office installed. You'll
need that, or an
| equivalent package that can read them, to open the
attachments. The
| proper install will set the system up.
|
| If, however, you *do* have those installed and the
attachments are greyed
| out in Outlook Express, in Outlook Express go to Tools,
Options, the
| Security tab, and de-select "do not allow attachments to
be saved or
| opened". Click Apply, OK, exit Outlook Express and
restart it. You should
| now have access to the attachments.
|
| HTH
| -pk
|
|

 

[Alex Nichol]

I receive several attachments daily that end with.sea
or.xls or .ppt and cannot figure out how to open them! I

sea I don't know - you would need whatever program uses the extension.

XLS is an Excel spreadsheet. ppt is a Powerpoint Presentation. Both
these are components of the Microsoft Office suite, and you would need
to buy that to work with them, but free viewers are available -

Powerpoint Viewer at
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/ppview97.aspx
Excel Viewer at
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/xlviewer.aspx