Hi Bill,
thank you.
I think the software actually requires Excel resident in the pc.
I'll give Open Office a try though just in case.
I don't understand a lot of PC technical speak. haahaa

I've actually got microsoft works, which does read excel files, but the PAL software still won't export files for me.

Mick is hoping to program the software to export to Text files, so eventually I should be ok.
Thank you anyway.

best wishes
Rikki
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