Could someone please test and tell me if this is happening for them too or
whether it is just me. create simple document in Excel 2003 or 2002 and
save it as XML Spreadsheet. Select File=>Send To=>Mail Recipient (as
Attachment) and see if the attachment is XML or XLS.

"Ne1" wrote:

> Please help! I have a problem with Excel 2003 and Excel 2002 where if I open
> an XML Spreadsheet file in Excel and then select File - Send To - Mail
> Recipient as Attachment, Excel converts the XML to XLS before attaching it.
>
> Is there someway I can make Excel leave the document alone so that XML gets
> sent on? I need to open XML, allow changes to cells, save changes and send
> as XML to be further parsed etc.
>
> This works fine if the XML is opened in Internet Explorer (Excel 2003 only)
> but not in Excel itself.