Viewing different file formats

Viewing Excel files

To view the Excel format you will need Microsoft Excel or a program capable of viewing Excel documents.

The size of the Excel document is in brackets, this is to give you an indication of how long it might take to download the document. This format is displayed in a new application window. To return to the website you can close the application window.

Programs capable of opening Excel documents

• For Windows PCs
  • Microsoft Excel Viewer (Free)
  • OpenOffice (Free)
• For Apple Mac
  • OpenOffice (Free)
  • iWork Numbers (Commercial software)
• For Linux
  • OpenOffice (Free)
• Online Excel file viewers
  • Google Docs (Free account needed)
  • Zoho Sheet – Online Excel viewer (Free, no account needed)

Viewing PDF files

To view pdf (portable document format) documents, you need a piece of software called Acrobat Reader which is freely available. If you are unable to view a pdf file, you may need to download the most recent version of Adobe Reader.

If you are using a speech to text reader or a browser with images switched off, you will find the following links useful:

Adobe accessibility resource center

Viewing Word files

To view the Word format you will need Microsoft Word or a program capable of viewing a Word (.doc) file, such as Word Viewer.

The size of the Word document is in brackets, this is to give you an indication of how long it might take to download the document.

This format will be displayed ‘outside’ the main structure of the site, ie there will be no navigation to other areas of the web site.

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