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Alternative to Excel for WinXP
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. |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 21:35:10, 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. I think most of them would originally; the current versions may not, but you should be able to find an earlier version that will, and those earlier versions are still likely to be able to read .xls (perhaps not ..xlsx or .docx). You may also find a 2003 Office CD somewhere (-:. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd like a pint of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman, "that'll be ATP." (Quoted in) The Independent, 2013-7-13 |
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:35:10 +0100, 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. Apache OpenOffice says that it runs on XP. https://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html An older version of LibreOffice ran on XP, but apparently the latest version does not. https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/195699/why-libreoffice-suggest-to-upgrade-to-615-on-windows-xp/ https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/184576/why-is-it-that-libreoffice-no-longer-supports-windows-xp-or-windows-vista/ Disclaimer: I have never tried to run either of these office suites on XP. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 22:01:30 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
You may also find a 2003 Office CD somewhere (-: Along those lines, there are hints here which worked for me for Office 2007 o SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY -- Every post to Usenet archives should help someone now & in the future. |
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On 23:42 5 Jun 2020, Arlen Holder said:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 22:01:30 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: You may also find a 2003 Office CD somewhere (-: Along those lines, there are hints here which worked for me for Office 2007 o SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...indowsxp.gener al/7ru4_AyhPCY What an outstanding post although the linked images are no longer there. It's exactly that sort of marathon I want to avoid. Nor will I download an unofficial ISO on account of the trojans and malware it might contain. |
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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 |
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In message , Pamela
writes On 23:42 5 Jun 2020, Arlen Holder said: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 22:01:30 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: You may also find a 2003 Office CD somewhere (-: Along those lines, there are hints here which worked for me for Office 2007 o SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...indowsxp.gener al/7ru4_AyhPCY What an outstanding post although the linked images are no longer there. It's exactly that sort of marathon I want to avoid. Nor will I download an unofficial ISO on account of the trojans and malware it might contain. -- |
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In message , Ralph Fox
writes On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:35:10 +0100, 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. Apache OpenOffice says that it runs on XP. https://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html An older version of LibreOffice ran on XP, but apparently the latest version does not. https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/quest...ffice-suggest- to-upgrade-to-615-on-windows-xp/ https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/quest...that-libreoffi ce-no-longer-supports-windows-xp-or-windows-vista/ Disclaimer: I have never tried to run either of these office suites on XP. Open Office 4 works on XP. http://www.openoffice.org/download/archive.html Libre Office 5 also works - but you'll probably have to download it from one of the trustworthy alternative websites, eg: https://www.filehorse.com/download-l...fice-32/21712/ -- Ian |
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:35:10 +0100, 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. Use Gnumeric. |
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 00:12:11 +0700, JJ wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:35:10 +0100, 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. Use Gnumeric. Windows builds of Gnumeric were discontinued in 2014. | Aug 2014 | | Discontinuing Windows Builds | | Effectively immediately we have stopped releasing and distributing | binaries for Windows. There are too many crashes that have all the | signs of being from Gtk+ and lower parts of the stack. We do not have | the means and time to debug Gtk+. Volunteers are welcome to take up | the effort. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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