Error message when using Excel to open text file

Periodically, I need to extract data from one of my email inboxes. To do so, I open Excel. From that, I open the desired inbox from my email program. Excel opens it just like it would any other text file - sometimes.

Here's my question. The process works flawlessly from my laptop which has Excel 2000 v.9.

However, from my desktop, which has the same email program version, but a newer version of Excel (Excel 2002 10.xxx SP-1), it doesn't work. I copied the inbox file that opens fine on my laptop to my desktop. When I try to open it from my desktop (with the newer version of Excel), I always get an error message which says, "(Name of file) is not a valid Web Archive."

I don't know what Web Archives have to do with any of this and all of the available Excel converters which come with Microsoft Office have been installed on the machine.

Any idea how I can get Excel 2002 to stop creating these error messages and actually open the file?

Thanks

One way that might work would be to have the new excel save and work
compatible with excel 2000

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> Periodically, I need to extract data from one of my email inboxes. To
> do so, I open Excel. From that, I open the desired inbox from my email
> program. Excel opens it just like it would any other text file -
> sometimes.
>
> Here's my question. The process works flawlessly from my laptop which
> has Excel 2000 v.9.
>
> However, from my desktop, which has the same email program version, but
> a newer version of Excel (Excel 2002 10.xxx SP-1), it doesn't work. I
> copied the inbox file that opens fine on my laptop to my desktop. When
> I try to open it from my desktop (with the newer version of Excel), I
> always get an error message which says, "(Name of file) is not a valid
> Web Archive."
>
> I don't know what Web Archives have to do with any of this and all of
> the available Excel converters which come with Microsoft Office have
> been installed on the machine.
>
> Any idea how I can get Excel 2002 to stop creating these error messages
> and actually open the file?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Originally Posted by Ryan Jones

One way that might work would be to have the new excel save and work
compatible with excel 2000

How would I do that? If I could open the file from Excel 2002, I know how to save that as an older version of Excel. But is there a way to make Excel 2002 act like Excel 2000 prior to opening the file? Thanks