Pamela wrote:
My Excel 2003 (version 11) on WinXP has been playing up and I don't have the
installation CD to do a repair.

Is there an alternative I can install which will read .XLS spreadsheets?

I seem to recall various open office suites but I don't know which will
install on XP.

Office 2003 probably isn't on a server any more.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool

"This tool allows an easy and comfortable way to download
genuine Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 disk images (ISO)
directly from Microsoft's servers, as well as
Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016, Office 2019,
Expression Studio and Office for Mac."

This site can give some leads, filenames to look for and so on.
To read all postings, you have to be a member. They've posted
plenty of breadcrumbs in the past, MD5/SHA1/SHA256 checksums
and so on.

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/thr...il-isos.24718/

I don't know my Office taxonomy well enough, to know which one
will suit your needs. For example, is OfficeSTD where your Excel
came from ?

h**p://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/3/6233A257-16BD-4C8D-BF4C-6FA59AF9213A/OfficeSTD.exe

Then you'd fix up the URL and look for that on archive.org .
I'm downloading this right now... Slowly. 227,190,984 bytes

https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/ht.../OfficeSTD.exe

You can look inside EXE files like that archive, using 7-ZIP.
Install 7-ZIP, right-click the file and you can look inside and
see the .cab files, the setup.exe and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip

Microsoft is pretty good about takedowns and cleanups, and sometimes
if I post a reference like that, it means "death to the upload". I
lost a useful upload once before, by posting it a few times and
then it got zorched. And it was a "nothing-burger" in importance,
hardly worth their automated wrath.

Since that is an automatic archival operation, and not a "hacker upload",
that's already a trusted item.

*******

The only reason to hunt down the Real McCoy, is because of
VB macros or such-like. Some spreadsheets with custom macros,
the macros would not run on LO or OO. I'm not an Excel person,
but I understand you can add what are almost EXEs to a spreadsheet
to do nifty/dangerous things. If you want to process neutered spreadsheets,
then LO would probably be just fine, for the usage of Calc.
For WinXP, you'd have to figure out what the last version
for WinXP was, as the current LO is unlikely to be suitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

Paul