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How do I open up an emailed .xls document without Excel?
I don't think I have Excel on my computer. I just know I want to open an
..xls file I was sent. I do have Microsoft Works. If a copy of Excel is required to open any .xls document, is it available for download online? Or must I go purchase a copy of it? Or is there another alternative? The cheaper the better. Thanks, |
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Hi Edward
Use the free Viewer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Edward" wrote in message ... I don't think I have Excel on my computer. I just know I want to open an .xls file I was sent. I do have Microsoft Works. If a copy of Excel is required to open any .xls document, is it available for download online? Or must I go purchase a copy of it? Or is there another alternative? The cheaper the better. Thanks, |
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Hi Edward,
If you do not have Excel, you can download an Excel viewer from Microsoft. The viewer will allow you to read but not edit a workbook. The viewer is freely downloadable from: http://tinyurl.com/54tzl Another possibility would be to download the freely available OpenOffice suite which can read and write Excel workbooks. The download is 60MB (IIRC), but the suite can also be obtained on CD. For OpenOffice go to: http://www.openoffice.org/ A third possibility would be to purchase a cheap copy of an earlier XL version - say XL2K - at Ebay. --- Regards, Norman "Edward" wrote in message ... I don't think I have Excel on my computer. I just know I want to open an .xls file I was sent. I do have Microsoft Works. If a copy of Excel is required to open any .xls document, is it available for download online? Or must I go purchase a copy of it? Or is there another alternative? The cheaper the better. Thanks, |
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Thanks Ron. That solved the problem. I'm a happy camper now. :-)
"Ron de Bruin" wrote: Hi Edward Use the free Viewer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Edward" wrote in message ... I don't think I have Excel on my computer. I just know I want to open an .xls file I was sent. I do have Microsoft Works. If a copy of Excel is required to open any .xls document, is it available for download online? Or must I go purchase a copy of it? Or is there another alternative? The cheaper the better. Thanks, |
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