I recently purchased an HP computer which has Microsoft
XP installed. I have considerable information stored
from my old computer which are Excel spreadsheets in
the .xls format. I am only able to read these files when
I open them and not work within or save changes in them.
When I contacted HP, they informed me that I needed to
separately purchase an Excel program that allowed me to
work within these files. I'm having a real problem
having spent $2,000 on a new system and then being told
that I have to spend more in order to access my files.
Are there any alternatives?