[MarioBareseSP]

Maybe you can help me?

A buddy of mine sent me a document via E-mail that I was supposed to open with MS Excel, But when I opened there was only these weird symbols. Anybody ever encountered this type of problem?

[saintlouisrams69]

you need to have excel on your computer, if you bought it sometime in the last few years you should have a 60 day trial period for excel you can use, start/programs/microsoft office/microsoft excel, you gotta d/l it, if not then you either gotta buy the disc or borrow it

[RogueJuror]

openoffice.org is you want a free alternative

[Arilou]

OpenOffice is very good, and will do almost everything Excel does; the stuff that it won't is unlikely to come up for you any time soon and you can switch over documents at will if it happens. Free is good.

[Robyn]

Also, if you DO have Excel and it is an older version than what your friend is using, the document will not be compatible with your program.