Tables 1.1 - Spreadsheet for Mac

I’ve been looking for something to open the occasional Excel files I receive, like an ad contract I just received from a New York magazine. For some reason nothing will open it; when I tried this one, it said the file was password protected and could not open. The publisher told me it’s not password protected. I tried icExcel, Mariner, and this one, and non of them work. Neo Office is the only one that would open it, but the formatting was wacky. I finally had to send it to someone with Excel on a Windows machine to open it for me. Wish this one worked, it’s a nice-looking app I’d be happy to buy.

It wasn't so long ago that 39 euros was more or less equivalent to $39 - but the dollar has fallen in value. Don't blame the developers - they pay for their groceries in euros.

I second the NeoOffice suggestion. It's a Cocoa port of OpenOffice. So it's fully compatible with Excel documents and of course free as in free beer and free as in free speech. http://neooffice.org/

I think Tables is ok if you don't do any heavy duty Excel stuff. That said, Tables opens most of the Excel files at work just fine.
Personally though, I find Mesa suits my needs much better. Developed for NeXT first this feel like a great OS X application with a lot of features.
http://tinyurl.com/y5cp4y

$50 seems reasonable to me for an Excel replacement.

NeoOffice has an excellent spread sheet that will open and save to Excel documents plus there is an Intel version. I don't use spread sheets very often, so I don't know how close NeoOffice is to Excel. However, the price is right and it works great!

Mariner Calc is also universal binary, and does most of what Excel does...
http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=14