cannot access excel spreadsheet

I have a received an excell spreadsheet attachment which I have saved in >my
documents> but try to open it and nothing happens. what do I do to open it
successfully? I am using micsrosoft windows XP No technical terms please as
I am very new to computing

Do you have Excel installed? In order to open an Excel workbook (file) you
must have the Excel program installed on your computer. Excel is not a part
of WindowsXP and you cannot download it for free from anywhere.
There is a free Excel viewer with which you can view the contents of the
file. You can download it at this site:
http://office.microsoft.com/download.../xlviewer.aspx

HTH Otto
"Renn" <Renn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B52E0082-9C2F-49BA-9F2A-8A02177339AD@microsoft.com...
>I have a received an excell spreadsheet attachment which I have saved in
> >my
> documents> but try to open it and nothing happens. what do I do to open
> it
> successfully? I am using micsrosoft windows XP No technical terms please
> as
> I am very new to computing

If you open the file and click file|print preview, do you see anything?

If yes, then the visible window could be just off the screen.

Try window|arrange|tiled
and you can adjust that window the way you want.

Renn wrote:
>
> I have a received an excell spreadsheet attachment which I have saved in >my
> documents> but try to open it and nothing happens. what do I do to open it
> successfully? I am using micsrosoft windows XP No technical terms please as
> I am very new to computing

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Dave Peterson