Email?

[Guest]

Received e-mail states I need miscroft office XP cd, Do I need to buy this,
or can I download the program?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Crystal

Is this message in the body of the eamil you received?

Or do you mean you are trying to open an attachement that came with the email?

If so, what is the extension on the the attached file you are trying to open?

This is an Excel news group so I'll assume .XLS extension. Is that correct?

More details would help us help you.

What email application are you using?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

Received e-mail attachment when I went to open stated I need to insert
Microsoft office XP small business CD ROM?

 

[Gord Dibben]

You have a few more questions to answer.

Re-read my original reply. File extension is critical.

Do you have Office installed on your computer?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

1, Home. comcast.net
2, passwords
3. click on e-mail
4, G oooo.zip (example)
5, attachment 1: Goooo.zip
6, File download: G oooo.zip
Type: Compressed (zipped) Folder
From: mail center. comcast.net
7, Click - open
8, Goooo.zip (folder task)
2 icons appear
9, right click on 1 st file
10, Do you wan to open file?
Name: Goooo.zip
Type miscrosoft Excel Worksheet
11, Click open
12 The feature you are trying to use is on a CD - ROM
Insert "Microsoft Office XP Small Business" disk and click okay
Do I need to go to a store and buy the CD ROM or can I downloead it???
I have Microsoft Word not office..
Thank you

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Crystal,
The instructions for handling the zip file are bit sparse, you can download
Ultimate Zip, which is free, to unzip the file. Since you are being pointed to
Excel in the directions you should be getting a file with an .XLS file extension.
http://www.ultimatezip.com/
http://www.ultimatezip.com/faq.htm (Free for personal use)

Since Excel is by no mens free, you might want to use the free viewer from
Microsoft, which allows you to view the workbook, but not update it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN
which is free for all users.

The above link was obtained using a Google Search (on a search bar):
site:microsoft.com excel.viewer
could also have been entered with quotes around instead of period between:
site:microsoft.com "excel viewwer"r

If you have to update the file you *might* be able to use Open Office
which is free and about 70MB of downloads between Open Office and
Java. Links re probably still good in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm

 

[Gord Dibben]

Thanks for the information Crystal.

Sounds like the *.zip file contains two files, at least one of which is an Excel
file.

Thanks also to David for following up on this and pointing you to the
appropriate sites.

I can't add to his suggestions.


Gord

Hi Crystal,
The instructions for handling the zip file are bit sparse, you can download
Ultimate Zip, which is free, to unzip the file. Since you are being pointed to
Excel in the directions you should be getting a file with an .XLS file extension.
http://www.ultimatezip.com/
http://www.ultimatezip.com/faq.htm (Free for personal use)

Since Excel is by no mens free, you might want to use the free viewer from
Microsoft, which allows you to view the workbook, but not update it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN
which is free for all users.

The above link was obtained using a Google Search (on a search bar):
site:microsoft.com excel.viewer
could also have been entered with quotes around instead of period between:
site:microsoft.com "excel viewwer"r

If you have to update the file you *might* be able to use Open Office
which is free and about 70MB of downloads between Open Office and
Java. Links re probably still good in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

YOU HAVE ME SO CONFUSED, i HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR 4 HOURS TRYING TO GET THAT
FILE OPEN, CAN YOU CALL AND WALK ME THROUGH IT?

 

[Guest]

I HAVE TRIED OVER AND OVER STILL ASKING FOR SMALL BUSINESS CD-INSERT!!!

 

[David McRitchie]

What do you need to do with the file, just look at it ?
Of course maybe the person who sent you the file could send it to you
in a format that you can read such as HTML by pasting as formatted text
into a Microsoft mail program such as Outlook Express, or create an
HTML attachment that you can read as HTML. Most email programs can
handle HTML files

If the file is under 100KB and is not confidential you can email it to me

If you are on high-speed access you should install Open Office, if you need
help installing these on you machine ask a friend.

Is this a one-time thing or is this going to be reoccurring event?