After reading Mike's response, I was wondering...

Do you own excel and were wondering if you can open files marked as readonly?
If yes, then see Mike's response.

Or do you not own excel and just want to view that .xls file? (I answered this
question--whether or not you asked ir!)

Casual wrote:

Hi

I was wondering if Microsoft offers a read only version of Excel. I
occasional receive files in this format but cannot open them. Is there any
read only program available for download.

Thanks Casual

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Dave Peterson