I can not open Excel (.xls) document sent as an attachment in email. I have Excel on my Mac.

I am not able to open an Excel (.xls) document sent as an attachment in an Email. I have Office for Mac loaded on my Mac.

Try dragging those attachments out of the mail message and into a Finder folder or onto your Desktop.
Then drag the .xls file onto the Excel app (the "actual" app or the Dock icon will do), or use File->Open from within Excel.
If that doesn't work, it's possible that the Excel file being sent to you was created using a more recent version of Excel than the one you have. Ask the person sending it to save it in an older format. If you just need to look at it and not edit it, the other person could send it to you as a PDF file.

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I am using WIN7 ultimate 64 bit and excel 2010 (office 2010 Pro plus).
I can not open any excel file(.xls and .xlsx) with a double click on the file. if I double click on the file, the application launches and excel starts, but no file is loaded and no error message, I have to manually go file open and select the file and
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