Unable to open excel imports on new computer

[Guest]

I have recently purchased a new computer with works 8 already installed .Iam
unable to open any excel documents .I have been to the microsoft download
update site which examined my computer and told me i don't need any updates
,but am still unable to proceed

 

[Dave Peterson]

MSWorks and Excel are two different programs.

If you don't own excel, you may be able to ask the author of the excel workbooks
to save their workbooks in a format that MSWorks can open.

You may want to try the free viewer from MS.

The free viewer (no changes allowed) from Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/officeupdate/CD011347961033.aspx

and the older version if you can't run the one above:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/excel2000/Xlviewer/2000/WIN98/EN-US/xlViewer.exe
(One line in your browser)

or...

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

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(If you decide to buy Excel (or all of the MSOffice Suite), keep MSWorks around
for awhile. You may need it to open those MSWorks files, save to a common file
format so that Excel can open them.)

 

[Guest]

MSWorks and Excel are two different programs.

If you don't own excel, you may be able to ask the author of the excel workbooks
to save their workbooks in a format that MSWorks can open.

You may want to try the free viewer from MS.

The free viewer (no changes allowed) from Microsoft:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/officeupdate/CD011347961033.aspx

and the older version if you can't run the one above:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/excel2000/Xlviewer/2000/WIN98/EN-US/xlViewer.exe
(One line in your browser)

or...

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

====

(If you decide to buy Excel (or all of the MSOffice Suite), keep MSWorks around
for awhile. You may need it to open those MSWorks files, save to a common file
format so that Excel can open them.)