I cannot download pricelists attached to e-mails from vendors who send
their pricelists in this manner. Can I do this with Windows XP home
edition 2004? What do I need to do?
Apistomaster

"apistomaster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I cannot download pricelists attached to e-mails from vendors who send
> their pricelists in this manner. Can I do this with Windows XP home
> edition 2004? What do I need to do?
> Apistomaster
>


Those are Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. If you don't have Excel on your
computer you can download an Excel viewer from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN

apistomaster wrote:

> I cannot download pricelists attached to e-mails from vendors who send
> their pricelists in this manner. Can I do this with Windows XP home
> edition 2004? What do I need to do?



You presumably *can* download them (and have downloaded them). It's that you
can't *open* them after you've download them.

These are Excel spreadsheet files. You need Excel, or a compatible program,
to open them. Since you can't open them, you presumably don't have such a
program installed.

However, if all you want to do is view existing Excel spreadsheets, rather
than create them yourself, you don't need a copy of Excel. You can download
a free Excel viewer at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
or http://tinyurl.com/6tss3

One more point: these files can have macro viruses within them. If it were
me, I wouldn't open such attachments sent to me by vendors.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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