opening a .xls spreadsheet

[ultra 2040]

i have been sent a .xls spreadsheet via an e-mail attachment but cant seem
to find a programme on my windows xp system that will allow it to open? any
advice?

 

[BruceM]

Excel should be able to open it, but for information beyond that it would be
best to post the question in an Excel newsgroup. This newsgroup is for
Microsoft access, a relational database program.

 

[Tim Ferguson]

i have been sent a .xls spreadsheet via an e-mail attachment but cant
seem to find a programme on my windows xp system that will allow it to
open? any advice?

Try with a plain text editor or a binary viewer.

I know of at least one dozy mare of a company that sends out html files
(and badly-formed html at that) with a .xls extension, for reasons best
known to themselves.

All the best


Tim F

 

[mnature]

Ask the person who sent it to you. They should know which software they
created it on.