Vicious circle (Opening Excel attachment)

When I get an e-mail with an attached Excel worksheet, I have three
choices: "View", "Open" and "Save As".

When I chose "Open" or "Save As", Firefox displays a box labeled
"Opening", it says that the attachment is a Microsoft Excel Worksheet
and asks me what Firefox should do with this file ("Open With" is
already selected and the box contains "Microsoft Excel for Windows
(default)".

When I click OK, Windows Installer starts, then a box labelled
"Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional" is displayed which says that
"The feature that I'm trying to use is on a CD-Rom or other removable
disk that is not available".

When I click "Cancel", the "Open With" box is displayed. When I
scroll down to and click on Microsoft Excel, the Windows Installer
starts again (same as above).

How do I open the Excel worksheet attachment?

Don't know about firefox but in oe right click the attachment and THEN save
as.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software
dguillett1@austin.rr.com
"GARY" <gcotterl@co.riverside.ca.us> wrote in message
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> When I get an e-mail with an attached Excel worksheet, I have three
> choices: "View", "Open" and "Save As".
>
> When I chose "Open" or "Save As", Firefox displays a box labeled
> "Opening", it says that the attachment is a Microsoft Excel Worksheet
> and asks me what Firefox should do with this file ("Open With" is
> already selected and the box contains "Microsoft Excel for Windows
> (default)".
>
> When I click OK, Windows Installer starts, then a box labelled
> "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional" is displayed which says that
> "The feature that I'm trying to use is on a CD-Rom or other removable
> disk that is not available".
>
> When I click "Cancel", the "Open With" box is displayed. When I
> scroll down to and click on Microsoft Excel, the Windows Installer
> starts again (same as above).
>
> How do I open the Excel worksheet attachment?
>

Save it to your My Documents folder and open it from there.