No Cells Appear In Downloaded Spreadsheet

The government was just kind enough to send me some data I asked for in the form of a spreadsheet. Came in a Yahoo email. Document was blahblah.xls

I downloaded it.

Clicked and Excel opened it without any error messages.

What I see is one white bar in the spreadsheet section. It has three sections where you would have three columns.

On the left it says F279, which I take to be the cell address.

Then to the right of that there's a sort of elongated blue button with 'fx' written on it and a dot at the left end that I can use to grasp it and slide it left and right.

To the right of that it says 6169, which is the content of some cell.

Hover over a couple of these things and it says 'name box' and 'formula bar' at different times (sometimes I can't get it to do it.)

There's data there. I can't do it now but somehow the first time I opened it I was able to scroll one or the other column (i.e. one at a time only) up and down and see there was content there.

Is this thing fixable or should I get back to them and ask for a rerun? I would delete this is I could but it doesn't seem to offer that choice.

Did a 'print preview' and after that it came up in normal view. Well, nearly, it was down at the bottom of the screen but I was able to drag it up and now I've got it.