What is the best way to read an excel document ?

I just want to be able to read excel spreadsheets. Do I need to purchase AppleWorks (with the other older stuff on it) or Office for Mac? Is there a better way? Thanks!
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

hi Rick - Welcome to Apple Discussions!
do i understand correctly that you only want/need to view xcl spreadsheets, not work with them etc?
if so, this might work for you:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14982
an alternative is NeoOffice, which is an open source office suite that can read (and work with) excel documents, among other things...
http://www.neooffice.org/
cheers

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