When posting on a forum, use the "@" symbol before the person's name such as @Bret Ehlers. 

The symbol of separation between the "free world" and communism was up for a total of 28 years.

Excel can open both but it takes a few stepsIf you open it in Notepad (or an equivalent text-editor, not MS Word) can you see the data or is it a jumble of symbols and nonsense? 

You probably are looking to find properties with Equity > $30,000 (that is the greater than symbol), or properties with Equity > 49% (greater than again).But maybe I'm wrong about this ...

and why do people sometimes start their post with the "@" symbol before another poster's name?

@Michael DuVentre if you type the @ symbol and then the first letters of my name, i will appear below and click on that and i (or whoever you tag) will be notified. 

@Alicia Maloney Alicia, to make the @{person name} work, you hold down the '@' symbol AND the '?'

Economic reform will be sluggish and mostly symbolic creating oscillations.

For example, placing “The (Team Name) Team” at the top of the page in large letters with a much smaller brokerage symbol somewhere below is not sufficient.The employing broker’s name must be spelled out in its entirety.

Why does the little anonymous posting symbol look like a man in a business suit?