You'll just need a compatible program which recognizes a .xls file. I'd suggest checking out the free productivity suite OpenOffice, which is pretty comparable to Microsoft Office but at a much more affordable cost.
Hope this helps,
John
this is probably a dumb question, but I,ll ask it anyway!
Is there any way to open an Excel spreadsheet document without having the Excel program?

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