A friend has e-mailed me a spreadsheet. However, when I try to open it I get the message, xls: file format is not valid.

Anyway of getting it to open?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Just to verify: you want to open an Excel file but you do not have Excel on your computer?

If so see this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...70f5a2a30094de

I do actually have Excell on the computer. Is it possible that my friend e-mailed me a spreadsheet created with a different version of Excell?

Kind regards and thank you.

Here are some searches for browsing:

http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&...d.&sa=N&tab=wg

http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=...%20not%20valid.