It sounds like you may not have excel installed on your pc.

If that's true...

The free viewer from Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/of...347961033.aspx

If that version isn't supported on your pc, Ken Wright posted this link to an
older version:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...5257&fileidx=1

Or maybe a free spreadsheet program would work for you:
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

how to open a excel spreedsheet file wrote:

good afternoon have received a e-mail with a attachment, cannot open it, it
syas look under excel spreadsheet file. [ file extension XLS . have looked
under it, but caanot find the way to open it. what to do???

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Dave Peterson