Excel Viewer
 

My PC no longer has Excel installed but I do have Excel Viewer 2003. If I
do, say, a Google search and find an xls doc. I wish to open, the PC seems to
try to open it in Excel and after a few seconds the screen goes white/blank.
To eventually read it I have to save it as an object to the PC and Viewer
will then open it.

Why won't Viewer open it directly from the Google search results page? (If I
search for a PowerPoint presentation in the same way, PP Viewer does open it
directly and, of course, for a pdf file acrobat reader also opens it straight
from the search results page!)

Suggestions gratefully received please.

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Thanks

Sim