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<Nate Conn>
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Wondering if we are the only ones affected by the recent Google Chrome updates...majority of our university users are Chrome users and as of this past weekends Google Chrome update, any report (7.6.11) that outputs excel (xls) in Google Chrome is losing the .xls extension and consequently the association of being an excel file...does anyone have a fix for this besides using a different browser and/or manually adding the .xls extension after each file is downloaded?

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Happened to our users who prefer Chrome also. I logged a bug with Google, but have not gotten a response. I have informed all of our Chrome users that haven't upgraded to ver 29, to not do it.


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Francis Mariani
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I see this happening as well. A temporary solution is to click on the downloaded file icon and "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". Annoying, yes, but at least you can open the file and you don't have to use a different browser.


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Of course there is IE tab as well (which works in Chrome and Firefox). This is probably as annoying as Francis's solution.

Your other option is to output to EXL07. There are quite a few limitations to that format, however.


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