You might want to download the demo of office X, it is good for 30 days. This should allow you to import your files. Brian G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:49 AM, S. Kennedy wrote: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:22:19 +1100, Tony Johansen wrote: > >> My apologies for the philosophical answer in the absence of any >> solutions >> that get the program you choose working. Best of luck. >> > > No apologies needed. I didn't report the whole story. I use > databases most of the time and spreadsheets very little. I need > Excel on the G4 in order to convert some of my old spreadsheet > files to a format that can be imported by my OS X spreadsheet > program. I saved a lot of the old files in slyk format because I > thought it would be the most transferrable but it doesn't work and > I need to go back and save them in Excel format. I really can't > justify the cost of MS Excel or Office for the little use I would > have for it. The old versions were bought for work before I > retired 10 to 15 years ago. > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:12:05 -0800 (PST), Richard Ramsowr wrote: >