change "open with" association in an outlook message

[healingvibration]

Greetings, I regularly receive an email from someone with an .xls
attachment. I know that I can save the file and then open it through
excel, but I was wondering if there is a way to change the "open with"
association, so I can just right click and open it without saving it?

When I right click the attachment, it doesn't give me the 'open with'
option, and if I just open the file, it opens in .txt (for some
reason?) and is a bunch of garbledygook.

thanks!

 

[Kathleen Orland]

This is a function of Windows and not an issue with Outlook. You'll have to
set the .xls extension to open with Excel in Windows Explorer.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Greetings, I regularly receive an email from someone with an .xls
attachment. I know that I can save the file and then open it through
excel, but I was wondering if there is a way to change the "open with"
association, so I can just right click and open it without saving it?

When I right click the attachment, it doesn't give me the 'open with'
option, and if I just open the file, it opens in .txt (for some
reason?) and is a bunch of garbledygook.

If you have properly installed Excel, it will open in Excel when you double
click it.