Download Life Spreadsheet
This is the most current published version of Life Spreadsheet (excel 2007+ only):
LifeSpreadsheet v 1.1
Older Versions:
Open Office & LibreOffice:
Life Spreadsheet_OpenOffice
Wordpress doesn’t allow uploading .ods formats, so we uploaded it with a .docx extension. Once you save it, make sure you rename it to end with the ‘.ods’ extension.
Excel 2007 and up, Original:
Life Spreadsheet
If you have ancient versions of MS Excel:
Since Open Office is free, and since older versions of excel really can’t calculate some of the more intense formulas, please just download and install ‘Calc’ from Open Office or LibreOffice (the new Open Office).
Life Spreadsheet 
Any chance you can post an OpenOffice version for those of us who don’t use Microsoft products?
Ask and ye shall receive.
Any chance you could publish this as a google doc or google form for the Officeless?
@Peter and Mike,
1. Download the file
2. Compose an email to yourself from your gmail account
3. Attach the file to this email
4. Send the email
5. When you get the email click “Open as a Google Spreadsheet”
I tried to import into google docs and they said “The formulas on this sheet could not be calculated. Try removing some formulas or modifying complex formulas, like VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, and recalculate. For more information on size and complexity limits in Google spreadsheets, visit the Google Docs Help Center.”
Time to switch to the work computer and use legit Excel.
I have an older version of Excel, and it can’t convert it completely. Should I try Google Docs? Or might you provide an older version for us with ancient software?
Try using the open office version… older versions of excel are too limited.
You should find a way to post the file…even if you have to rename it xls or xlsx and have us change the name. When attempting to login via Facebook, one of Scribd’s security access requirements is to ‘Scridb may post status messages, notes, photos, and videos on my behalf.’ No thanks. I’d rather go plunk down $100 and buy Office 2007 than let some faceless cog impersonate me.
If you administer the WordPress server, either update your httpd.conf (or mime types) with an octet/stream entry for the binary file extension (aka .ods) and recycle apache, or update wordpress directly to allow that extension (not sure which will be easier to get WordPress to play nice). Worst comes to worst you can rename it something WordPress allows and just mention that in your post. 🙂
Re: Scribd. Fair enough. We’re working on another way to get this up on the site, but settled for that in the meantime. Thanks for your ideas on working with WordPress on this.
You WrOcK, thanks for caring! 🙂
For those who don’t want to bother with scribd, I put a copy up on my own site here: http://peterjcarroll.com/files/Life-Spreadsheet-Open-Office.ods
Thanks Peter!
Just put the files on mediafire or similar. You avoid all of the scribd awkwardness with the open office version and so on.
Thanks so much for putting the work into this. I love spreadsheets, this is perfect.
You’re welcome 🙂
I’d love to get a version in Numbers ’09 as long as we’re talking additional formats. I can open the Excel version without a problem, but the Numbers uses a different paradigm for spreadsheets in that there’s a canvas on which you can have multiple inter-related pieces of information instead of just one big array of columns and rows on each tab. It makes presenting data alongside charts nicer and easier to work with.
Any update on a Numbers version? Thanks for sharing your hard work.
Hi Tikune and Ahshuwah,
Thanks for indicating your interest in this. We don’t have any plans for a Numbers version in the immediate future, but we’ll be sure to post on the blog when and if we do make that move.
–Eric