Good Morning !
Thanks to those who responded and here is a summary of the
suggestions :-
mesa3, <http://www.plsys.co.uk/mesa.htm>
Mariner Calc <http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=14>
Pyramid 1.6.4 <http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/
Pyramid.shtml>
NeoOffice: <http://www.neooffice.org/>
Ragtime Solo like Appleworks and has desktop publishing
facilities and a spreadsheet.
tables is still in beta <http://www.x-tables.eu/>
Appleworks will not convert / handle multiple Excel worksheets !
That is a lot more than I imagined . Mariner Calc is very close to
Excel !
The makers also produce Mariner Word which I find to be
EXCELLENT .
It's simple , has some features , but does not keep telling you how
to write .
Individually Mariner Write & Mariner Worde are $50 US , but a
combined package is $80 .
Cheers
Bob