MS Excel and Word (or Office whatever)

debitcardmayhem

Manxman_in_exile said:

[EDIT:  In respose to Victor2]

I don't know - seriously.  Can I do that?  Do you know* it will work?

As explained above, I don't particularly want to dive into this blind and then get comments along the lines of "Well, that was a daft thing to do... " or "What on earth made you think that would work... " or "Before doing that didn't you think to do this... " etc etc.

I want to avoid that situation if at all possible.

*Sorry - not wishing to seem ungrateful but I'm sort of looking for responses that people are pretty sure will work.  Or be told that it can't be done and I need to buy new software... 

That will work, or you could mount the disk on the pc with a drive, share it on your network and run it from there. Of course I am only pretty sure that will work

flaneurs_lobster

Manxman_in_exile said:

gavinbaxter said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

Prism said:

The web versions are free. I would try those first before deciding if you need to buy an Office subscription.

Thanks.

As already explained - can you point an idiot (me) in the right direction?

Try this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web you will need to create a Microsoft account to use it.

That might be easiest and most straightforward.  Thanks again

(Oh God!  I'm going to have to get myself a MS account... )

Yes you will, I just created one to make sure it works. Comes with a brand-new shiny Hotmail email account and a whole 5GB of online storage.

Manxman_in_exile

Thanks for the help and suggestions everyone.  I hadn't got back to this because I've not needed to use a spreadsheet again before this morning and trying to use the Samsung Notebook again has reminded me to sort this out.

I think I'll go down the MS account route and join the 21st (or even the 20th) century.

Thanks again and apologies for the delay in getting back.