I got it and it works! I installed it with not so much as a whimper on a Freebsd system and also on a Debian Linux system. There are a number of options in running it and I have not done much other than verify that it took a .xls binary and produced a perfectly good html document that lynx read with no trouble. My thanks to Gil and to others who have responded. If I had to edit and handle Excel documents every day, I would probably have to use a JAWS work station, but right now, these things show up just often enough to be annoying. I am sure glad to be able to read them now and I will have to play with the options to see what all I can do. Martin Gil Andre writes: > >This is the GNU solution you probably want. > >http://www.xlhtml.org/