Dick, do you have Excel installed on your computer?

If not you can get a free viewer from Microsoft here ,you can look at the
sheet but you can not make any changes to it

http://heh.pl/&2vt

Here is an older version if you can't run the one above:
http://heh.pl/&2HA


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Paul B
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Using Excel 2002 & 2003

"Dick" wrote in message
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I have a xls file i cannot open . i went to control panel and folder
options
and i do not have an xls folder in there . what can i do now to open it?