XL7: What Is the Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95?

• Microsoft Excel Viewer for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SUMMARY

Microsoft Excel Viewer is a stand-alone program that is available from Microsoft free of charge. You can use Microsoft Excel Viewer to view, copy, zoom, and print files that you create in Microsoft Excel versions 2.0 and later for Windows and Microsoft Excel versions 2.2 and later for the Macintosh. Note also that Microsoft Excel viewer includes an AutoFilter feature that is similar to the AutoFilter feature in Microsoft Excel.

The Viewer program makes it easy for you to exchange Microsoft Excel documents with other people and view these documents on your computer. In addition, Microsoft Excel Viewer supports OLE objects and allows you to view any file created in Lotus 1-2-3.

Microsoft Excel Viewer will not allow you to edit an open document, although you can use it to copy or paste information from the Clipboard and drag data from any open Microsoft Excel document. These viewing and manipulation features make Microsoft Excel Viewer a capable and convenient Microsoft Excel document browsing tool and an ideal replacement for the Quick Viewer supplied with Windows 95.

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Minimum System Requirements to Run Microsoft Excel Viewer

• A personal computer with a 386DX or higher processor
• Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 or later
• 4 megabytes (MB) of RAM for Windows 95 (6 MB is recommended)
• 12 MB of RAM for Windows NT Workstation
• 3 MB of available hard disk space (6 MB must be available in order to complete installation)
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
• VGA or higher-resolution video adapter

Templates and Macros

Microsoft Excel Viewer supports viewing templates, chart files, and macros; however, macros contained in templates cannot be run.

Full Screen

To view as much of your worksheet at once as possible, click Full Screen on the View menu. To restore your screen, click Full Screen again.

Activating OLE Objects

Microsoft Excel Viewer allows you to activate any embedded object in your Microsoft Excel documents provided that the corresponding OLE server is present on your computer. However, any changes made in the object are discarded when the OLE server is closed.

Uninstall

The Microsoft Excel Viewer Setup program includes a maintenance mode option to uninstall or reinstall the Microsoft Excel Viewer. These options are described in the Readme.txt file that comes with the program.

Distributing Microsoft Excel Viewer

Because Microsoft Excel Viewer is available from Microsoft free of charge, you can distribute the program to other users.

List of Disk Contents of the Microsoft Excel Viewer Disks

For a list of the files that the Microsoft Excel Viewer disks contain, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q10000
   TITLE     : Disk Contents 3.5: Microsoft Excel Viewer 7.0 for Win 95

HOW TO OBTAIN THE MICROSOFT EXCEL VIEWER

The following file(s) are available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

 ~ Excelvwr.exe (size: 2062703 bytes) 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

HOW TO INSTALL THE MICROSOFT EXCEL VIEWER

1. The Microsoft Excel Viewer's Setup program is designed to run properly only if Windows 95 or Windows NT is running. If Windows is not running, start Windows before continuing.

2. Close all open programs and turn off any utilities or virus protection programs.

3. If you downloaded the self-extracting file, double-click it to automatically start Setup. If you obtained the Microsoft Excel Viewer on disk, double-click the Setup.exe file on Disk 1.

4. The Setup program will prompt you for a folder in which to install the Microsoft Excel Viewer. The default folder location for the Microsoft Excel Viewer is c:\Program Files\Xlview.

5. Click Installation to install Microsoft Excel Viewer.

6. If the Setup program detects Microsoft Excel for Windows (version 5.0 or later), Setup will then prompt you to determine which program to use as the default program when you open Microsoft Excel documents. The default program is used whenever you open .xls, .xlt, or .xlm files.

   - Clicking Yes (open with Microsoft Excel) means that Microsoft Excel for Windows will be used by default to open Microsoft Excel files.

   - Clicking No (open with Viewer) means that Microsoft Excel Viewer will be used by default to open Microsoft Excel files.

   NOTE: If you choose this option, you must run the Microsoft Excel for Windows Setup program to restore Microsoft Excel for Windows as the default program for Microsoft Excel documents. For more information regarding how to restore Microsoft Excel as the default program, see the Readme.txt file that comes with the Viewer program.

7. To run Microsoft Excel Viewer, click the Start button on the Windows 95 Taskbar, click Programs, and click Microsoft Excel Viewer. Alternatively, you can run Microsoft Excel Viewer by double-clicking the Xlview.exe file in your Xlview folder.