Send excel(2003) worksheet as an email body not working when opened in excel 2010

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Hi All,

When I open an excel 2010 file (.xlsx) file, I am able to use the Send to mail recipient button. On clicking this it asks me whether to send the current excel worksheet as attachment or mail as body.

However when I open an excel 2003 file (.xls) file, the same Send to mail recipient button seems to be disabled & I am not able to use this functionality at all.However if I use the save as option and save it in 2010 format then it works fine, but I dont want to use this option since I have loads of file in 2003 format. The excel 2003 file opens in compatibility mode, seems this can be one reason.

Please kindly tell me how to resolve this issue.

I am using Windows 7 Professional (SP1) 64 bit Operating System, MS office 2010.

Posted 10-Jun-11 5:29am

Pravin Patil, Mumbai

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S Houghtelin · Answer 1 · 2011-06-10T05:57:00

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In Outlook, create a new email to the desired recipient. Drag the 2003 .xls file into the email. Or use add attachment, navigate to the file folder select the .xls file.

Regards

Posted 10-Jun-11 5:57am

S Houghtelin