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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / October 2007importing .dat files
Help! I'm trying to import a .dat file in Microsoft Excel for Mac (2004). When I try to open the file itself from the desktop, I get an error message saying no application found, and to visit microsoft.com/ mac. Can anyone help me? I've always been a mac person, and am not familiar with .dat files. My googling seems to find that no one likes these files. > Help! I'm trying to import a .dat file in Microsoft Excel for Mac > (2004). When I try to open the file itself from the desktop, I get an > error message saying no application found, and to visit microsoft.com/ > mac. Can anyone help me? I've always been a mac person, and am not > familiar with .dat files. My googling seems to find that no one likes > these files. A file with a .dat extension could be nearly anything - by convention it just means that the file contains "data", which could be an XL workbook, a jpeg picture, an application, a text file, a binary file, etc. Not sure why you're trying to open it with XL, but unless you know what type of application created it (or what type of information it contains), predicting the ability of any application to open it will be a crapshoot at best. If you want to open it in XL, try using File/Open from the XL menu. ... Or try one of the options in Data> Get External Data. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 10/11/07 11:42 AM, in article jemcgimpsey-8DA9F3.09421311102007@msnews.microsoft.com, "JE McGimpsey" <jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote: In article <1192112188.460319.122730@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, shinylightdesigns@yahoo.com wrote: > Help! I'm trying to import a .dat file in Microsoft Excel for Mac > (2004). When I try to open the file itself from the desktop, I get an > error message saying no application found, and to visit microsoft.com/ > mac. Can anyone help me? I've always been a mac person, and am not > familiar with .dat files. My googling seems to find that no one likes > these files. A file with a .dat extension could be nearly anything - by convention it just means that the file contains "data", which could be an XL workbook, a jpeg picture, an application, a text file, a binary file, etc. Not sure why you're trying to open it with XL, but unless you know what type of application created it (or what type of information it contains), predicting the ability of any application to open it will be a crapshoot at best. If you want to open it in XL, try using File/Open from the XL menu. |
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