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