Excel

[WOODBS]

Is there a free download for Excel? I don't remember ever paying for it but it is 2003 version..:0

 

[Malkin]

Sometimes it comes preloaded on an off-the-shelf machine.

You can probably find a free Excel "viewer"

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

or the open source ones... or google docs!

 

[WOODBS]

cool. thanks

 

[jiarby]

openoffice.org

 

[choucove]

openoffice.org

If you want free, this is the way to go. There is also the Google Docs as stated above, which are becoming quite popular. But Open Office will open and work with the Microsoft Office file types just fine.

 

[Bigdawg]

Open office all the way. Love google docs, but it has some severe spreadsheet limitations.

 

[bob]

If you want free, this is the way to go. There is also the Google Docs as stated above, which are becoming quite popular. But Open Office will open and work with the Microsoft Office file types just fine.

If and only if there are no macros attendant to whatever file you might be opening. If there are VBA macros they absolutely positively will not work with Open Office. OO uses a far different, and if you were fetched up with VBA incomprehensible, object model than VBA.

Open Office always puts one in mind of Dr. Johnson's observation on a dancing dog: "It's not that it does it well, it's that it does it at all."

 

[choucove]

If and only if there are no macros attendant to whatever file you might be opening. If there are VBA macros they absolutely positively will not work with Open Office. OO uses a far different, and if you were fetched up with VBA incomprehensible, object model than VBA.

Open Office always puts one in mind of Dr. Johnson's observation on a dancing dog: "It's not that it does it well, it's that it does it at all."

Bob, you're right this is something that I hadn't really thought of. A great number of spreadsheet users out there don't go into the depth of what is really capable of being done in Excel such as macros and scripting. However, there are many still that do and for them all I can suggest is spend the money and buy the right thing. Office 2010 Home & Student (which includes Excel) is less than $150.