On 25 Sep 2006 06:00:36 -0700, Space Cowboy wrote:

> The last vendor sent them in an Excel spreadsheet which I don't have
> installed.

If you don't want to give business to Microsoft (which I can understand),
consider installing OpenOffice 2.0. This will give you Calc, their Excel
replacement.

Just to test, I threw some random Cyrillic characters into an Excel
spreadsheet (I don't have Chinese installed), and then opened the file in
Calc. It showed exactly what it was supposed to show.

And, since it's free, you don't have to regret spending a lot of money on a
piece of software you rarely use.

Now, if it's a drive-space issue, i.e. you're running out of it, this won't
help.
--
Derek

"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a
competent historian." -- Lee Simonson