Karen, The free IBM, among others, supported application OpenOffice (and LibreOffice fork) support the same number of rows as Excel2010. www.libreoffice.org/download/ www.openoffice.org/download/ When OpenOffice and LibreOffice forked LibreOffice came out with a newer version. OpenOffice hasn't yet. So, I prefer LibreOffice. Note, OpenOffice/LibreOffice is reasonable as a Raw Data viewer though slower than Excel. The difference is that it is FREE!! and and the interface is a lot more like Excel 95-2003 instead of like the entirely new Excel 2007/2010. Now if you are writing code that will run on three quarters to a million lines, Excel 2007 0r 2010 is essential. Sam Karen - It's probably not the answer you want to hear, but the newer version of Excel ("2007," I believe) handles far more rows and columns, and can handle these files. there may be another solution, but i'm not aware of it. how do I display the raw data please of my family finder test and > my dad's in an application? > Karen