i must have misunderstood the original posting. i thought he said he had 
no office products. of course, if you have office or even works then there 
is a bunch of easy options.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Bill Gallik wrote:

> Rachel is right, why not just save the original XLS file as a CSV file -- 
> that option is part of the "Save As" feature under the "FILE" drop down menu.
>
> Then, you can actually changed the name of the resulting file from 
> Whatever.CSV to Whatever.TXT and open it with Notepad or Word, etc.
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