Excel file converted to mht type

[mdlaugh1]

We have a user who has a handfull of Excel files that now have an ext of MHT. i.e. filename = myfile.xls.mht.

What could cause the file to become named "mht"? (Excluding intentially saving it as type mht). Uses Excel 2003.


She was working with the file just last week and it was in type XLS. This user would not know how to save it as a MHT type and would have no reason to do so. In looking at her list of files, she has a few others of this type.

I need to see if she is doing something to cause this, or if a setting on her PC is causing it. It's not happening with every file however. And we renamed the file to remove the mht, opened it in Excel and saved it again and it retained the correct XLS extension.

thank you!!

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Perhaps this will be of help:

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mht&Search=Search

Perhaps she viewed the file in Internet Explorer (or whatever browser she uses) and saved it from there?

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[mdlaugh1]

Hi John,
Thanks for the link... It is possible that she did that. However I tried to test that process, and my file still retained the .doc (it was a Word doc I tried with.)

did you try this? What steps did you take? I simply had an IE browser open, then in the url address line I typed "C" and it listed numerous documents and files in my My Documents folder. I opened one of them made a change and saved the document. It did not change the ext to <filename>.doc.mht.

thanks!
molly

 

[joeh17]

Did the user somehow manage to change the default Save As type to a Web Archive?