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Microsoft is proud to announce Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95, a tool that enables Microsoft Excel users to share their spreadsheet files with more people than ever before! Microsoft Excel Viewer is a small, no-charge, freely distributable program that lets people view and print Microsoft Excel for Windows (version 2.0 and greater) and Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh® (versions 2.2a and greater) spreadsheet files. Microsoft Excel Viewer gives users the flexibility to view page layout, copy, zoom, AutoFilter, and control cell sizes. The Microsoft Excel Viewer supports OLE DocObject as well as the ability to view any Microsoft Excel or Lotus® 1-2-3 file.
Today, the Internet and other on-line services do a good job of dealing with text data as well as graphic images. However, tabular data (i.e. columnar lists, graphical charts, or financial reports) are not handled well. As more and more people begin creating and distributing spreadsheets over the Internet and internal corporate Webs, Microsoft has created a tool that is designed to make it easier than ever to view Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. Now, content providers can easily distribute tabular information in Microsoft Excel format (.xls).
Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95 is built to automatically configure itself as a Helper Application for Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer (it can also be manually configured as Helper Application for other browsing tools). This allows users to automatically view Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls) that are linked to HTML pages on a LAN or the World Wide Web.
This product is "freeware". Users are encouraged to
copy and distribute Microsoft Excel Viewer to friends and co-workers,
or post it onto public electronic bulletin boards, LANs, and Internet
sites.
While Microsoft Excel Viewer allows you to view and print Microsoft Excel spreadsheets using the look and feel of Microsoft Excel, the retail version of Microsoft Excel contains all the award winning document creation and editing features that make everyday Microsoft Excel processing tasks easier. If you do not own Microsoft Excel and would like to join the 19 million users who have made it the world's best selling spreadsheet application, please contact Microsoft Sales Information Center at 1-800-426-9400 for pre-sales information in the US. To order Microsoft Excel directly, call the Microsoft Order Desk at 1-800-360-7561. If you are outside the United States, contact the Microsoft subsidiary for your area. To locate your subsidiary, call the Microsoft International Sales Information Center at (206) 936-8661.
If you would like to add a reference to Microsoft Excel Viewer at a World Wide Web site, please add a Hyperlink to this home page. This will ensure that anyone who obtains Viewer from that Web site will have access to the latest version of Viewer, and up to date information about it.
You can make it easy for others to see your spreadsheet information by providing the Microsoft Excel Viewer from your Internet web page. Once you've downloaded the Microsoft Excel Viewer onto your Internet server, create a link. It's that easy. Microsoft Excel Viewer is FREE and can be FREELY distributed.
If you're using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files and the Microsoft Excel Viewer on your web page, you may qualify to have your site linked from the Microsoft Excel web page. If you would like to submit a request for your site to be listed, then enter specific information into Add a Microsoft Excel Link. Keep in mind that submitting a request doesn't guarantee that your site will be linked from the Microsoft Excel web page. If your site is selected, we will notify you via e-mail.
Microsoft Excel users who post their documents on the Internet or distribute them on disk may choose to point readers to one of the following locations where they can retrieve Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95.
Microsoft Excel Viewer is available under the "Free stuff" heading on the Microsoft Excel Home Page which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/MSExcel. If you are reading this file from the Web you can click the Hyperlink at the end of the document to automatically download Microsoft Excel Viewer.
Members of The Microsoft Network may download Microsoft Excel Viewer from the Microsoft Excel Forum (MSEXCEL).
If you have a modem, you can obtain Microsoft Excel Viewer from the MSDL, which you can reach by calling (206) 936-6735 (936-MSDL). The filename is EXCELVWR.EXE. The MSDL is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The highest download speed available is 14,400 bits per second (bps). For more information about using the MSDL, call (800) 936-4100 and follow the prompts.
Excel Viewer (EXCELVWR.EXE) is located in the Microsoft Software Library (EXCELVWR.EXE is also available in Library 2 of the MSEXCEL forum on CompuServe.)
On the Internet, Excel Viewer is located on the Microsoft anonymous ftp server, which you can reach by typing "ftp ftp.microsoft.com" (without the quotation marks) at the ">" command prompt. The EXCELVWR.EXE file is located in the /Softlib/Mslfiles subdirectory (notice that this path uses a forward slash [/] instead of a backslash [\] character). To download the file, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each line:
cd /softlib/mslfiles bi get excelvwr.exe
Note: The "bi" command changes the download protocol to binary. By default, Microsoft server downloads in ASCII mode. If you download Excel Viewer in ASCII mode, it will be a corrupt file.
To obtain Microsoft Excel Viewer by mail, call Microsoft Order Desk at (800) 360-7561. The part number for Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95 is 065-054-339; there is a nominal shipping and handling charge for the product. If you are outside the United States, contact the Microsoft subsidiary for your area. To locate your subsidiary, call Microsoft International Customer Service at (206) 936-8661.
Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95 is available for download from several online information services, listed above under "Sources for Microsoft Excel Viewer." To obtain Microsoft Excel Viewer, download EXCELVWR.EXE and place it in an empty folder on your hard disk. EXCELVWR.EXE is a compressed, self-extracting file. After you download EXCELVWR.EXE, run it to extract the files it contains and automatically begin the Setup process. For setup instructions and additional information on using Microsoft Excel Viewer, see install.txt file.
NOTE: If you already have a full version of Microsoft Excel installed on your computer, DO NOT install Microsoft Excel Viewer in the same directory. Doing so will cause file conflicts.
The Readme.txt file in the Microsoft Excel Viewer folder contains an extensive list of online sources for Technical Support information. Microsoft also offers Microsoft Excel Viewer support on the standard Microsoft Excel for Windows Product Support Services phone line, at (206) 635-7070.
