I’ve looked into the possibility of using the freebie Open Office Suite - 139mb download (so you need broadband) or you can get on CD at duplication and postage cost and occasionally on PC magazine CD’s I believe.  This normally copes quite well with MS Office files but I couldn’t get this file to load as it reported that it was password protected.  This password protected message does not come up when I load it into Excel so I doubt that it is in fact a password issue.

Do you have any spreadsheet software?  If so let me know what you have and I can try to save the file in a format which might be acceptable.  I know it works in Excel 2003 but not having designed it I don’t know what features it uses and therefore what I can save it as and still retain the functionality (it automatically recasts the group tables as you input results and generates fixture lists for the following rounds).