Free Excel type software?

NiallB

Another vote for OpenOffice, I use it in my charity shop to do the monthly sales reports.

macman

Muppet81 wrote: »

Err! Computer illiterate. What is a flash drive?

USB stick, memory stick.

Muppet81

So I could download Openoffice direct to a memory stick and use it soley on there by plugging into my PC? What size of USB would I need to hold it?

lucylucky

A small one would do 1Gig would more than cover it.

Stompa

Muppet81 wrote: »

So I could download Openoffice direct to a memory stick and use it soley on there by plugging into my PC?

Yes.

Muppet81 wrote: »

What size of USB would I need to hold it?

That link I gave says it takes 230MB, plus you'd need a little more for the PortableApps menu system.

macman

Installing OpenOffice on a PC with MS Office is not going to 'disturb' the latter, they'll run entirely independently.

prowla

Alternatively, f you want the M$ apps, you can go to: http://office.live.com/

Muppet81

I have now loaded Open Office and am very impressed. Will do the job really well. Thanks for all the advice.

Just one query. I downloaded it to a memory stick and then opened it in a folder on the memory stick. It then, however, went through an installation process which did not seem to give me an option and it is now on my C drive

Not now as concerned as it seems to be living happily with all my other programs. Should this have happened though or should I have been able to do everything on the memory stick. See! I said I was computer illiterate!

Aiadi

Muppet81 wrote: »

I have now loaded Open Office and am very impressed. Will do the job really well. Thanks for all the advice.

Just one query. I downloaded it to a memory stick and then opened it in a folder on the memory stick. It then, however, went through an installation process which did not seem to give me an option and it is now on my C drive

Not now as concerned as it seems to be living happily with all my other programs. Should this have happened though or should I have been able to do everything on the memory stick. See! I said I was computer illiterate!

You should have downloaded the portable version (and not the regular one) from:

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

Stompa

Muppet81 wrote: »

Just one query. I downloaded it to a memory stick and then opened it in a folder on the memory stick. It then, however, went through an installation process which did not seem to give me an option and it is now on my C drive

Not now as concerned as it seems to be living happily with all my other programs. Should this have happened though or should I have been able to do everything on the memory stick. See! I said I was computer illiterate!

Did you download the portable version? If so, you should really have downloaded it to your hard drive, and then installed it to your memory stick, preferably (for ease of use) having installed the PortableApps platform first.

Alternatively, there's a single install that will do both:

http://portableapps.com/download

(choose Suite Standard), though this does install some other applications too which you most likely won't need or want.