>Actually, it's also a bad idea because it allows people to be confused about what kind of file they're looking at.

Well, there always is the nice picture :-) Most of the time, cryptic looking words and symbols (".xls") confuse people, the visual is more user friendly.

>That's for sure. Kind of like when I talk to a tech support person and fairly early in the conversion work in that I'm a computer professional, so I don't have to get instructions like "Click on Start and choose Run". <g>

Lol.