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Ray,<br />
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the spreadsheet is fine; it downloads &amp;&nbsp;opens fine in Excel 16.<br />
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it's just the confusing message.<br />
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the customer gets confused.<br />
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Richard
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See attached message.<br />
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I get this every time I download an Excel spreadsheet generated in php with the following header:<br />
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header(&quot;Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel&quot;)<wbr />;<br />
$fn = &quot;registrants&quot; . date('Y-m-d_h_i') . &quot;.xls&quot;;<br />
header(&quot;Content-Dispositio<wbr />n: attachment; filename=&quot; . $fn);<br />
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If I change the file extension to xlsx will that solve this?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
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See attached message.

I get this every time I download an Excel spreadsheet generated in php with the following header:

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
$fn = "registrants" . date('Y-m-d_h_i') . ".xls";
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $fn);

If I change the file extension to xlsx will that solve this?

Thanks

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