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		space_ghost on Sept 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so compl... That's broken now in Office 2013 and Office 2016. Several of my users -at the same time- found that they could not open "excel" documents provided by several different vendors, all of which were actually HTML tables in files named ".xls". My guess is that Microsoft broke this with a software update, but I've yet to research the problem.

glaberficken on Sept 11, 2016 [–]

This is caused by a security update, details and workarounds on the link below

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3098898/microsoft-windows/e...

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