Opening Excel 2007

Please help me..
I am getting this warning message when opening Excel file
which is created by Coldfusion on office 2007 -
The file you are trying to open, 'filename.xls', is in a
different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that
the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before
opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?
Thanks in Advance...

Hi prasanth,
I just created an excel file , when we open it in a machine
having office 2003 it will open with out any warning but when we
open the same file in a machine having office 2007 it show the
warning message, and displays properly , i need to avoid that
promting message that much.

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Author: Andrew Rowland
Version: 11.x (Fri, 30 October 2009)"
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