What browser are you using? I experience the same thing using Firefox to retrieve Excel files from my Comcast Webmail account. Internet Explorer 7.0 doesn’t do that (I still prefer Firefox).

If you are using Firefox, the solution is simple. When you click the file and choose to save it to your hard drive, take a look at the file name in the Save dialog box. Mine always look like: somefile.xls.htm. Just delete the “.htm” from the end of the file name before pressing the button to save the file. That will save it with the .xls extension.

Even if you save it as .htm, it is still an Excel file. You just need to remove that extra extension.

There may be a setting in Firefox to change this behavior, but I don’t know what it is.

Tim