Hi Marta,

Excel comes as a standalone product or as part of the ubiquitous MS Office
suite. Excel is an application and is not part of WindowsXP, which is your
systems operating system. The are linked by parentage, both being developed
by Microsoft.

If you want Excel, you will need to purchase it, possibly from Ebay. If you
are on a budget, you could buy an older (but eminently usable) version, say
XL2000. Alternatively, you could consider the Open Office suite which is
able to read and write XL workbooks. OpenOffice can be downloaded freely at:

http://www.openoffice.org/

This is a hefty 60MB+ download, but is also available on CD.

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Regards,
Norman



"Marta" <Marta @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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I dont have excel in my xp windows, how can I acquire the excel software
only?