On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Keith MILLS wrote: > Thanks. > > Do I take it that the only way that I can open these files is to > shell out for MS Office for Mac which I don't have? You could load open office, http://www.openoffice.org/ or NeoOffice http://www.neooffice.org/ or if you don't need to actually work with the file, but just look at it, then have the person who created it send you a PDF instead of a raw Excel file. SR