What do you do if you don't have excel, and people send you stuff in excel?

[Rock'n Robin]

I am the commisioner for first grade boy's soccer. Just this week I've been sent the roster format and the schedule in excel format. I don't have excel. I may have at one time, but our hard drive crashed. Last spring my BIL was here and truly disgusted that I didn't have excel (he EMailed home and needed it for a baseball league he was coaching). He downloaded something from my windows disk, so I foolishly thought I was covered, but whatever it was doesn't work now and I can't find my windows #2 disk.
I have excel at work, but most of you teachers realize I'll be a little busy the first week of school to input 82 names, addesses, parents names etc. onto rosters!
Is there anything I can do? I tried "find a program from the web", but the site it directed me to made no sense. I'm not very technical.
Robin M.

 

[Shelle&Dave]

I use Open Office instead. It's free. I haven't had a problem with it and it does work with Excel files.

http://www.openoffice.org/