Opening excel file in macbook

while opening an excel file created in other computer which is not apple, there are always some strange characters that can be read. how can i solve this problem

What app are you using to open the file? If Excel for Mac, you need to ask at
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macexcel

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I have just downloaded iworks08 to my new macbook pro. I have a trial edition of microsoft excel for mac downloaded as well. I have noticed that I am not able to open excel files in numbers 08.
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/Goran
Attachments:
List open excel sheets and close open ones.jpg ‏104 KB

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