I HAVE FILES SAVED IN EXCEL AND THE TRIAL VERSION IS EXPIRED, HOW DO I OPEN THEM , DO I NEED TO DOWNLOAD EXCEL FIRST FOR ME TO OPEN AND EDIT THEM ?

It should be located on the back or the inside of the Office 2007 pro container that the Office 2007 Pro DVD shipped in.

If you are using a trial version of office (which are often preinstalled on new systems) , and that has expired...you can purchase the key online from Microsoft at the going retail rate from, for example, here:
office.microsoft.com/en-au/buy/

and then activate the trial version using the purchased key.
This doesn't require you to reinstall your software, so long as you purchase the correct version.

OR you can alternatively download open office for free, from here:
www.openoffice.org/

It can open, edit, and save-as Microsoft word, excel and powerpoint documents and is completely free.

Depends on your needs, but I'd recommend the free option.

http://download.cnet.com/microsoft-office-compatibility-pack/3000-18483_4-10648733.htm
By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats.
excel and word from download .com free

hope this helps

MS Excel is not afree program.
You will need to purchase a copy of MS Office which includes Excel.
For an alternative free program OPEN OFFICE is a full-featured officesuite that's compatible with Microsoft Office.
If you want Open Office you can download this free program.
Click on this link to download :-
http://www.openoffice.org/

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Hi, IF you want to use Excel on your PC, what you can do is install Microsoft Office 2010 trial version from here: then click the download a trial version. or there are other programs that are free like the Open office program that you can get here.
Hope this helps your issue, and thank you for using Fixya, you recommendation is highly appreciated for the free support.

If you still have the installation CD for Microsoft Office 2003 and the key that goes with it, you can un-install the Trial version of Office 2007 and install Office 2003. Files saved Office 2007 format are not redable with Office 2003.

To preserve your files (the ones made with Office 2007) you must go through the following procedure:

1. Open each file with the application that created it (Word, Excel, Powepoint, or what have you)
2. If it its a Word 2007 file save it in Word2003 format
3. If it is an Excel 2007 file save it in the Excel 2003 format.
4. Etc.

This is only necessary if you intend to modify them at some later time.
If you only want to read (not modify) them you can still do that because Microsoft offers a free Word viewers.

Other free software you can use to open files created with Office 2007 is OpenOffice.org 3. You might lose some formatting but the files will be accessible to you.

Trial version expired = buy it already

You won't lose the data files, but you bring up a good point. I would use Word Pad and try opening a couple of the files. If they open correctly, you'll be safe to uninstall MS Office.

If it doesn't open, try to convert them to a simple text file or a .rtf file in MS Office by opening them and choosing Save As and save them that way.

You can download the trial version of the software from the Microsoft website.
The trial version can run upto 60 days,

else there is another software which is similar to excel called Minitab. I would prefer Minitab to Excel. This can also be downloaded but only the trial version but can be reinstalled after the trial version expires.

It depends which trial version was downloaded. You can't reinstall the same trial download but they do have other trial downloads.

There is a student 2007, small business 2007, professional 2007 etc. versions. You can download each one of these if you have not already used these trial versions. They all offer the basics...Word, Excell, Powerpoint, Outlook with added software depending on what version you download.