Microsoft Excel 97 Viewer

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With Excel Viewer 2003, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer 2003 to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. This download is a replacement for Excel Viewer 97 and all previous Excel Viewer versions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com

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With Excel Viewer 2003, you can open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer 2003 to another program. However, you cannot edit data, save a workbook, or create a new workbook. This download is a replacement for Excel Viewer 97 and all previous Excel Viewer versions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com

Written by co-founder Kasper Langmann, Microsoft Office Specialist.

With the “Excel Viewer” you can:

  1. Open Excel files
  2. View Excel files
  3. Copy data from a spreadsheet to another program

… Without having Microsoft Excel installed!

The Excel Viewer is an official tool developed by Microsoft, to make it easy (and free) for you to handle Excel files.

Excel Viewer has been around for more than 20 years. In 2008, Microsoft gave the Excel Viewer an overhaul and updated the whole thing.

The updated Excel Viewer replaces the former – and very popular – Excel Viewer 97 (and all previous Excel Viewer versions).

In the video below, I show you the exact steps on how to install and use the Excel Viewer.

Download the Excel Viewer for FREE here

We’ve made it quick and easy for you to download the Excel Viewer. Just hit the button below, save it, install and you’re good to go.

If you encounter any problems, watch the video above as that shows how to install and use the Excel Viewer.

What you CAN’T do with the Excel Viewer

Despite the Excel Viewer being free, there’s obviously a few things it cannot do.
Such as:

  • You can’t edit data within the spreadsheet
  • You can’t save changes to a workbook
  • You can’t create a new workbook either

Sometimes, you don’t even need Excel Viewer…

With Microsoft’s recent introduction of Windows OneDrive, viewing Excel files has become even easier.

OneDrive includes a so-called “Excel Web App”. As the name indicates, this web app works online and makes you able to view Excel files directly from your browser.

If you access the file through OneDrive, you’re able to even edit the Excel file (depends on what privileges you’ve been given by the person who shared the file with you).

System requirements

Microsoft Excel 97 2003 Download

The newest Excel Viewer supports following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2008

Further, the Excel Viewer applies to the following Office applications:

  • Microsoft Excel 2010
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft Excel 2000
  • Microsoft Excel 97

Note: The Excel Viewer is only available as a 32-bit application. However, the 32-bit version of the Excel Viewer can be used on 64-bit versions of Windows.

IMPORTANT: Excel Viewer also works on newer systems

I downloaded the Excel Viewer running Windows 10 (and Windows 8) and it worked perfectly.

Further, I opened an Excel file created in Excel 2016 and that went smooth as well.

So even though Windows 7 is the latest official supported version, later versions of Windows will run the Excel Viewer fine too.

File Formats supported by Excel Viewer

Excel Viewer supports the most common type of Excel files.
Here’s the complete list of supported file formats:

You can open following Excel files: .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xltx, .xltm, .xls, .xlt, .xlm, and .xlw

Note: While you can open macro-enabled files, running macros cannot be done.

Free alternatives to Excel Viewer

Microsoft Excel Viewer Windows 10

Since the Excel Viewer makes it easy for you to open, print and copy Excel files for free, we figured you might also want to know about a few (free) alternatives to the Excel Viewer.
So, below you’ll find 3 free alternatives that enable you to open Excel files for free.

  1. Google Sheets: Google’s take on spreadsheets. With Google Sheets, you can easily import/export Excel files. Requires a free Google account (such as Gmail).
  2. Zoho Sheet: Easily import Excel files from your computer – or an URL – and view it online, for free! Very smooth and quick.
  3. OpenOffice: Free and open source, ‘Open Office’, enables you to create spreadsheets for free. Rather similar experience to Excel 2007.

Bonus: View PowerPoint and Word files for free

Not only has Microsoft developed a viewer to Excel files. They have also developed similar viewers for PowerPoint and Word files too!
Below you’ll find a link to each of the ‘viewers’ in case you need to open Word/PowerPoint files.

Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet (.xls) Viewer

  • PowerPoint Viewer (discontinued)
  • Word Viewer (discontinued)