If you just want to read the files you can download an Excel viewer from -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN

If you want to read and write you will have to purchase either MS Office
(which includes Excel) or a stand alone Excel. Although Office is slightly
more expensive it does include Word which most users want anyway.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"puzzled" wrote in message
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i have windows xp pro on my laptop. the company i work for use excel
spreadsheets for data and i cant't use them. can i download excel from
the
msn site and be confident its going to work.