Hi Robert, I think you and I are the only ones around on MSO at the moment! ;-) Never heard of any file extension 'OXLSO' - Google doesn't come up with anything either... Regarding your extra characters in your email - it's your email client causing it. If you were using Outlook, the fix is here: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm But as you're using Eudora - I have no idea how you fix it... Sorry! ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal Sent: Saturday, 27 December 2003 6:43 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Clarification My post arrived chewed up for some reason. I am repeating here: Can anyone tell me what OXLSO files are please? Are they password protected? I don't know where/how/why I got the "=D3" and "=20" in that email. I did not purposely enter them. Robert ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************