Microsoft Excel is the most competent tool to do calculations, prepare tables and figures but not everyone has it installed on their personal computer and due to this, they cannot view this kind of document. In these cases, you can make use Microsoft Excel Viewer.

In addition, if you have got an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in your email but there's no Microsoft office at your office to view that file then also viewers can come in handy. The viewers are applications that Microsoft makes available for free of charge that allows user who do not have Office programs to view the Excel files.

There are viewers offered for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and they are compatible with files created in whichever version of Office between Office 97 and Office 2007 which can be a blessing on computer which does not have ms-office installed on it. In fact, this Excel viewer comes from Microsoft themselves, and it is in public as a free tool to help out users to purely open Excel 2007 with no need to spend money on the Microsoft Office.

This download is a substitute for Excel Viewer 2007 and all preceding Excel Viewer versions. With this fresh Excel 2007 Viewer, you look at and also print spreadsheets produced by making use of whichever version of Microsoft Excel. You can also duplicate data from Excel Viewer to an additional program. The other alternative for opening xlsx files is the Office Compatibility pack but that works only if you have a copy of Office 2003 or Office XP. Excel viewer is an impressive tool, and it is very easy to download at install it and the installation file is not too big. There are other organizations other than Microsoft also who have come up with their own excel viewer out of which some are free.