excel attachments open in notepad!?!?!?!?!

[coch]

set up is W2k Os, Outlook 98 & Excel 97
Recipient recieves email with excel attachment and the attachment displays as being an excel file in outlook, when you double click it prompts (as usual) if you want to save the file or open, select either option and it opens in notepad??? i can then tell it to open with excel and it does. How do I get it to open automatically into excel like it should do??

 

[bazzert]

You could ensure that the file association is correct.

To do this goto Windows Explorer right click an Excel file and choose open with. Select choose program and ensure that the tick box for always use this program to open these files is selcted and then select excel from the program list.

 

[coch]

thanks that worked, any ideas why it would just stop being associated?

 

[bazzert]

Only possibility is that somehow an Excel file has been opened with Notepad and then the file got associated with that app.