cannot open xls files in XP Proffessional?

[beckylousiana]

My boyfriend bought me a Dell with XP Professional. I
cannot open and edit an xls file? (spreadsheet) Word
tries to open it, it doesn't look right, and I cannot
edit the information. What can I do, and which program
should I use? I would think that XP Professional would
come with a program that would allow me to open and edit
spreadsheets?
Thanks,
Becky

 

[Tom Lake]

What can I do, and which program

should I use? I would think that XP Professional would
come with a program that would allow me to open and edit
spreadsheets?

No, it doesn't. You have to buy Microsoft Excel separately or as a part of
the Microsoft Office suite.

Tom Lake

 

[mike]

Becky, you need to install EXCEL to open xls file....and
this is on an Microsoft office disk which has to be
bought.
Mike

 

[Drew Tognola]

BeckyLousiana,
Amazingly enough, Win XP Home or Pro do not come with 'Word or Excel'. You
need to install from one of your old Office CD's or buy Office XP.
Drew

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Becky,

An xls file is from MS Excel (spreadsheets). If you do not have that
program, you can download a free viewer here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.htm

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[~A_Sammy]

Office Suite is offered free from Sun Microsystems.
It's spreadsheet will open, edit, and save excel spreadsheets.

 

[~A_Sammy]

You can get the current version here, but without broadband it will be a
problem because its over 60 megs.

http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.0/index.html

 

[Al Dykes]

Office Suite is offered free from Sun Microsystems.
It's spreadsheet will open, edit, and save excel spreadsheets.

Close, but not exactly; Sun sells a very good version with
support. 60$ (i recall) for an amazing large suite of
software including a document editor (with the ability
to write PDFs, spread sheet, power point-ish tool, a draw tool,
and more!!!!.

There is a free version, 99% identical at www.openoffice.org,
downloadable. It's DIY support; buy a book and post questions on the
OO forum.

OO reads and writes all the MS formats, but not as default.

The MS viewers are very good, but of course they can't edit.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Well, do you have Excel installed?

Bruce Chambers
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