# Compare Spreadsheets for Excel 1.1.5

Released on October 17, 2007

Compare Spreadsheets for Excel allows to compare Microsoft Excel tables and quickly find differences and display them in a form of an obvious report with the highlighting of all found changes. Both entire tables and only selected cell ranges in one or several tables can be compared. The program does not require Microsoft Excel to be launched.

# Release Notes

#### About This Document

#### Product Requirements

#### Installation Notes

#### Product Usage

#### Uninstallation

#### Support Information

Copyright © 2006 Office Assistance LLC. All rights are reserved.

## About This Document | Back to Top

The Release Notes lists important information you should know prior to deploying and using the product.

For detailed documentation on Compare Spreadsheets for Excel, see the product built-in help and product home-page.

## Product Requirements | Back to Top

In order to function properly the product requires the following:

- Operating system requirements:
  - Microsoft Windows 98
  - Microsoft Windows 2000
  - Microsoft Windows 2003
  - Microsoft Windows XP
  - Microsoft Windows Vista
- Software requirements:
  - Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0
  - Microsoft Excel 2000
  - Microsoft Excel 2002 (XP)
  - Microsoft Excel 2003
  - Microsoft Excel 2007

- Administrator privileges for the installation.

## Installation Notes | Back to Top

Please, use the following guides to install the product properly:

- Close Microsoft Excel
- Run setup.exe.
- Follow installation wizard steps
- Start Microsoft Excel

Notes for Microsoft Windows 95/98 users. If you have installed Windows Installer version 1.x, the following error message will appear during installation:

        error 1155: file \\INSTMSIA.EXE not found

To avoid it, you should download and install Windows Installer version 2.0 or later. It can be downloaded from Microsoft web-site:

- version for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/NT45/EN-US/InstMsiW.exe
- for Windows 95, 98, and Me
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe

## Product Usage | Back to Top

This section explains the product usage basics.

- After the installation (see Installation Notes) you need to read the First Start Help topic (Menu Start - All Programs - Office Assistance - Compare Spreadsheets for Excel - Compare Spreadsheets for Excel Help).

## Uninstallation | Back to Top

You can always uninstall Compare Spreadsheets for Excel using Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel.

## Support Information | Back to Top

Our technical support service is always glad to help you and to answer your questions. Please, keep to the following rules when contacting the technical support service:

If your query is related to erratic software operation, please provide the following information:

- version number of the software product you are using. We also recommend you to visit our web-site: probably, the problem you encountered has been already solved in a new program release available from our web-site;
- version number of Microsoft Excel and of Microsoft Office update packages installed (to find out this information, click Info/About item in the Excel menu);
- version number of Windows and update packages installed (you can find out this information in the Properties of the My Computer item on the desktop or the System item in the Control Panel);
- please try to provide as much information as possible so that our experts could repeat your error in the lab.

Do not forget to provide the product registration number: this will allow faster processing of your request.

You can contact our technical support online at www.office-excel.com/support/.

We do our best to reply to user queries the same day we receive them; anyway, you will get the answer no later than in two business days.

Also feel free to suggest new features regarding our products and web-site using suggestion form.

## Copyright | Back to Top

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