Before your friend invests any money in a program (or a suite of programs) to
just submit expense reports, he may want to try a free program:

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

or...

Google Docs offers a free online spreadsheet program (and a word processing
program) that may be able to open your file.
http://docs.google.com

Depending on how complex the expense workbook is, either may work ok for him.

Art wrote:

Hi,

A friend of mine who is employed in a Christian Missionary organization
(non-profit and all that) needs to buy a copy of Excel to submit his expense
reports. He's asked my advice about purchasing it. I see that there's a
Home & Student version -- which on the surface doesn't appear that it would
apply. However what he's doing is not really commercial so I was wondering
if he could use that version. Does anyone know how the licensing reads or if
that's an accepted use for the Home & Student version?

I'd appreciate any information anyone might know.

--

Dave Peterson