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Want to read Microsoft Excel files that somebody has sent you or made available to you but don't have Excel installed? Well, if you just want to read them, but not edit them, you can use the free Microsoft Excel viewer that Microsoft makes available. Get it here.

Articles

Excel 2010 Preview - a look at the upcoming version of Microsoft Excel (NEW)
Excel Q&A - Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Excel.

News

May 7th, 2009
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has shipped. See this article for details on what's changed in Excel (and other apps)

October 9th, 2007
David Gainer, over on the Excel Team Blog, has posted that a fix for the number calculation bug is now available for the calculation bug in Excel 2007.

Resources

Here are some useful resources for lawyers to use for more information on Microsoft Excel

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 - Click here to download it from Microsoft

Sites

Chip Pearson's Excel Site: Excellent resource from one of the top Excel MVPs.
Microsoft's Official Excel Site: The official site for Microsoft Excel. Includes tutorials, articles and other information about Excel.
Mr. Excel: Great site from Excel expert Bill Jelen. If you're an Excel enthusiast (or want to be) subscribe to his podcast for daily quick Excel tips via Video Podcast.

Forums

Microsoft offers a nice collection of free support forums for Microsoft Outlook. You can post questions, read answers or even answer some questions yourself if you like. They're free and easy and just a click away.

Microsoft Excel Forums - For all released versions of Excel (i.e. everything but Excel 2010)
Excel 2010 - For the Excel 2010 Beta version

How to Ask a Question: When posting a question to a newsgroup please be sure to indicate what software you're using, what version of the software you're using, what SPECIFICALLY you are trying to do and what happens when you try to do that (especially any error messages you may be receiving). It is also helpful if you tell us what you have already tried in an effort to fix it so that we don't waste time telling you to try things you've already attempted.

Newsgroups

Microsoft has free support newsgroups available for nearly every product they make. In these newsgroups you can read questions and answers that other people have posted for the product or you can post your own questions and get answers from the other posters.

How to Ask a Question...

What's an MVP?

An MVP or "Most Valuable Professional" is a volunteer who has been recognized by Microsoft as an expert on a particular technology. You'll commonly find them in the Microsoft Support Newsgroups, but they can sometimes be found in other forums or lists. They can be very helpful but keep in mind that they are only volunteers providing assistance in their spare time.

NNTP

NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is the traditional way of accessing newsgroups. The traditional Microsoft program for NNTP is Outlook Express though in Vista this has been upgraded and renamed to "Windows Mail".

Click the links below to open the Microsoft Excel newsgroups in your NNTP reader:

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Web Forums

Since NNTP is a tad esoteric Microsoft has introduced a web interface for their support newsgroups. These are the same newsgroups you get via NNTP, just in a web browser.

Click the links below to open the Microsoft Excel newsgroups in your web browser:

General

Last Updated: 03/10/2010