{"id":20648,"date":"2011-10-19T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:55:40","slug":"how-to-open-excel-files-without-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-open-excel-files-without-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to open Excel files without Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to open an Excel document but don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-office-2010-home-student.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Microsoft Office<\/strong><\/a> installed, then don&#8217;t fear &#8211; you can open them with <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-excel-viewer.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Microsoft Excel Viewer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Excel Viewer is a simple application which allows you to open Excel sheets without Excel. Once installed, just double-click on the file you want to open and Microsoft Excel Viewer does the rest:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20683\" title=\"Microsoft Excel Viewer\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/10\/Microsoft-Excel-Viewer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just like using the real thing but obviously, there&#8217;s no editing of any kind allowed but it&#8217;s ideal for just browsing or viewing Excel documents if you don&#8217;t have Office or your Excel isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to edit Excel, you can opt for <a href=\"http:\/\/openoffice.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>OpenOffice<\/strong><\/a> which is completely free to use and allows you to both open and edit Excel, PowerPoint, Word and many other formats although it&#8217;s much heavier and requires a longer installation process than Microsoft Excel Viewer. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/libreoffice.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>LibreOffice<\/strong><\/a> which you can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/libreoffice-an-excellent-open-source-productivity-suite\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-excel-viewer.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Microsoft Excel Viewer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to open an Excel document but don&#8217;t have Microsoft Office installed, then don&#8217;t fear &#8211; you can open them with Microsoft Excel Viewer. Microsoft Excel Viewer is a simple application which allows you to open Excel sheets without Excel. Once installed, just double-click on the file you want to open and Microsoft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-open-excel-files-without-excel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to open Excel files without Excel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[1072,1058,1060],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-20648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-excel","tag-microsoft-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334042,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/334042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}