Windows ME and excel compatibility Help!!!!!

[Guest]

I am in urgent need of some help!!! I have Windows Millenium on my computer
and this came with Microsoft works. I hate it! It does not contain
microsoft excel for some reason, only microsoft works spreadsheet. This
program is horrible and will not do any of the functions that excel does.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get some sort of version of excel 97?
I see that you can get excel 2003 (very expensive) but I just need the oldest
version that is compatible with most excel files out there. I am ina
frantic state because I recently signed up for an online class that requires
excel 97 and I didn't realize that my spreadsheet program would not work.
Any suggestions you would have would be very helpful and much appreciated!

 

[Myrna Larson]

Try eBay.


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:09:06 -0700, "Alison Schneider" <Alison

 

[Harlan Grove]

I am in urgent need of some help!!! I have Windows Millenium on my
computer and this came with Microsoft works. I hate it! It does not
contain microsoft excel for some reason, only microsoft works spreadsheet.

....

No version of Windows comes with any version of Excel. Some PC manufacturers
offer to install Office (which includes Excel) as bundled software, but it
always costs extra. When Office isn't bundled on a PC, Works usually is.

If you really only need just Excel 97 functionality (so no VBA in this class
you're taking?), then you need to check online aution sites for Excel 97 or
Excel 2000 (or their Office counterparts, which you're more likely to find).
There's another option, at least for the short term - if you have a high
speed internet connection, you could download and install OpenOffice, which
includes a spreadsheet with most of Excel's functionality, and almost
certainly all the functionality you'd need for the first few weeks of most
courses.

VBA: if your course involves VBA, you should get Excel 2000 at the oldest.
Excel 2000 was the first version to come with VBA 6.x. Excel 97 came with
VBA 5.3. The difference is the addition of several functions to VBA, such as
Split, Join, Replace, and the semantics of a few other functions. Excel 2000
provides these, Excel 97 doesn't.

 

[Jerry W. Lewis]

MS offers free file viewers,
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC&Query=excel+viewer
but will not edit

Stephen Bye has written a spreadsheet that is compatible with Excel file
formats and most formulas
http://www.byedesign.freeserve.co.uk/
but it is probably not sufficient for use in an Excel class.

If the body offering your class does not offer Excel at an attractive
price, then your best bet is sites such as eBay, as others have already
suggested.

Jerry