Excel is a part of Microsoft Office, not Windows XP. You need a copy of
Office or Excel to work on Excel files.

You can use Excel Viewer to view and copy data from Excel files:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

"megaman" wrote:

I have windows xp Home edition and I cannot open Excell files without errors
happening. Do you have to pay seperatley for Excell or should I be able to
open these file exstensions in Microsoft works "Spreadsheet" ?