Shadow wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:30:18 -0700, Robert Baer
wrote:

Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$
programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my
Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it
Any suggestions extremely welcome.
Thanks.

LibreOffice Portable will handle most of that old Excel stuff.
And you can just delete the folder after you're done.

Last one to work with XP:

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable-versions/

LibreOfficePortablePrevious_5.4.5_MultilingualStan dard.paf.exe

120MB download, 400MB installed. Don't forget to "delete extra
languages" on install, unless you need them.

You will probably need to update M$ runtimes. Google whatever
it says is missing (can't remember offhand, but for me it was just one
file).
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Libre Office flavor/version of Excel does not do half of what Excel
2003 does.
And that is when ignoring the macro "facility".