My macbook pro won't open exe file's.

Please help thanks

Down load and use open office
http://www.openoffice.org/
exe files will not open on OS X
my apologies exe will not open with OpenOffice
it was xls file I used it for the other day

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- Safe Mode - It starts the same then it turns off by itself
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