I've recently come across a utility called WordView, which is quite nice and
allows me to view MSWord docs without shelling word itself.  It also disallows
edits and is ideal for informational documents.

What I now need to make my setup complete is the same kind of utility for
Excel.

The idea is to add these to an office management program I'm writing in VB,
which allows users to open a file for read-only access, without the huge
system overhead of starting the applications.

I hope that this isn't too far outside the scope of this group.

Any ideas appreciated

Colm

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Colm Keating
Systems Admin
Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd
Dubln 2, IRELAND

The Excel file format is actually an OLE 2 compound File.

If you want to write your own viewer, I would recommend a book called
"Microsoft Excel Developers Kit", It has *very* complete information
on the format of the .XLS files.

Attn Other Readers: If you don't live in Dublin, ignore the following
references ;-)

You can probably get it in Hodges-Figgis or WaterStones on Dawson Street.
If not, I know Micromail in Cork have it.

ISBN : 1-55615-632-4

Other than that, I havn't heard of any Viewers.  It is possible
some grid VBX supports data in Excel format.

Hope this helps,
Sean Joyce.
Iona Technologies,
Dublin 2.
Ireland.