mS Excel ain't there....

[lurker]

I tried to help a Friend today who couldn't open an email with an Excel (.xls) attachment. I couldn't find Excel or Word on his machine. He bought it at Wal(of China)-Mart a couple of years ago. WerdPerfekt is there.

It's Winders xp but I didn't check which version.

Any Ideas?

[Kodiak]

My new computer didnt have MS Works on it. I have a disk if you want to put it on the machine.

[dodgehighforeve]

Excel and Word aren't part of works though, they're from MSOffice. I think he's saying they were there, then one day they weren't.

[lurker]

Not quite..

I don't know what walfart loaded on his machine...
Another board got me to here:
http://www.openoffice.org/

I haven't loaded it but will email the link to the other confuser. Tomorrow will tell....

[dodgehighforeve]

What brand is it? Some brands come with it, some come with it as an upgrade, and some don't come with it at all.

Openoffice is an opensource program that's supposed to be identical, or nearly identical as office, except it's free, unlike office. You could use Kodiak's Works. MSWorks can open Excel and Word files. I think wordpad can also open word files, and I believe Internet Explorer can be used to view them. I know MS has a small program that can be used to open Powerpoint files without having powerpoint, so they may have them for others also.

WordPerfect. Haven't used it much, and not recently, but it may be able to open them.I do have a copy of Office 2003, and Office XP that I got, Umm, somewhere. I'd be happy to send one your way, for, um, educational purposes, right.

[Detector]

You can get the free Excel viewer here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=EN

In most cases, when you buy a new PC you are given a choice on Office Suites. Walmarts, for what ever reason, must have made the choice for Perfect Office on that machine. Perfect Office comes with Word Perfect and Quarto Pro while Microsoft Office would come with MS Word and Excel. They both cost the same so I'm not sure why anyone would choose Perfect Office.

I don't know about Quarto Pro but Excel has the ability to convert(import) other brands of spread sheets maybe Quarto Pro can Import .xls if you save the file to your hard drive first.

[Highwayman]

Knowing how Wal*Mart does business, I’d wager they got Perfect Office at a huge discount and MS wouldn’t match it.

[Detector]

Could be but I don't think there is a price difference. Chances are either they(Walmarts in-house electronics manager) chose to order some of both(MS Office/Perfect Office) or they have the Schroeder syndrome. Some idiot thought Perfect Office was better and didn't consider the buyers probable choice.

[Highwayman]

They probably are the same price, at retail to us. Wal*Mart doesn’t pay retail. Check this out when you have a little time. It’s a bit long.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

By now, it is accepted wisdom that Wal-Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focused, leaner and faster. Wal-Mart itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track merchandise. It expects the same of its suppliers. But the ability to operate at peak efficiency only gets you in the door at Wal-Mart. Then the real demands start. The public image Wal-Mart projects may be as cheery as its yellow smiley-face mascot, but there is nothing genial about the process by which Wal-Mart gets its suppliers to provide tires and contact lenses, guns and underarm deodorant at every day low prices. Wal-Mart is legendary for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems. It is also legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods.

[lurker]

Thread Hijack!

The pickle company (valasic?) went bankrupt after crawling in bed with walfart. There's an amazing difference between making a nickel a jar and losing a nickle a jar.

Levi's made the same mistake. They're only a label now. I'll bet that they don't even own a sewing needle.....