How do I attach an EXCEL link attachment and people who do not have MS office view it?

I have a Spreadsheet (workbook) that has 18 tabs. I use a message board web site that has 14 people total. When I want to post something on the message board, it gives me an area to post an attachment. So I put my EXCEL spreadsheet in there by locating it on my computer through the "browse" feature. Good right? Well the problem I am having is not ALL 14 people have Microsoft Office XP or ANY form of Microsoft Office. Some of the people can view the information only because they have that trial period that all computers have for 30 days or whatever but my concern is, when that runs out, I still want them to be able to view the information on the spreadsheet (all 18 tabs). Some of the people can only read the FIRST tab that's on my spreadsheet. I tried saving my spreadsheet as "web page" but that didn't work, it showed all 18 tabs but the contents of each tab were "unavailable". I thought maybe saving it as a different format might allow them to open it. I tried converting it to a PDF file...that didn't work (only converted 1st tab and half the contents were cut off)

So my question is this... Does anyone know a way I can EASILY attach my spreadsheet to my message board where everyone can view all 18 tabs every time they open it w/ out having to use the TRIAL PERIOD or having to buy the $150.00 program? Thank you all for any help you can give.

Anonymous2010-02-24T10:15:38Z

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1) Convert it to pdf. http://www.dopdf.com/ is free and does a nice job.

2) An expired trial version of Office can still read documents, it just can't do anything else with them.

3) Open Office Calc can open Excel files. http://www.openoffice.org/.

4) If it's your message board, and you can write php code, you can add a couple of buttons (and a lot of code) to allow a direct download of the xls file or conversion to pdf, graphic or something else. (xls reading code in PHP is available all over. http://www.phpclasses.org/search.html?words=excel&x=0&y=0&go_search=1 has some nice readers (one converts the spreadsheet to HTML).

jimgmacmvp2014-10-27T10:24:22Z

It would be much simpler and easier to provide a link to an on-line version of your workbook. This way anyone, whether they have Excel or not, can open and view the workbook. If you set permissions up, the people you specify can even edit the workbook live together in real time. This is completely free using Excel on line from Microsoft at Office.com

Going with Logic!2010-02-24T09:29:25Z

you can pdf it - you have to command it to pdf every sheet in the file and not just the one you are on ... it should do it all and you should have 18 pages of pdf ...

worked for me ...otherwise export it to word ?