I have never heard that message, but try the tips here, John:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/b...oft_office.htm
Mainly...try doing a custom install. Otherwise, are you sure you don't have
a file called excel.exe in your system already?
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"John Ziaja" wrote in message
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I have a copy of Excel 97 on floppies that I bought in the last century.
I've upgraded my hardware and I cannot re-install excel on my new machine.
The install program tells me that Excel has already been installed before.
It seems Microsoft does not believe in hardware upgrades. I called Excel
support about this and was essentially blown-off. Does anybody know how to
get around this? My conscience is clear because I feel I am being totally
ripped-off by Microsoft. Excel 97 works fine for what I use it for. I am on
fixed income and don't want to pay for a new copy of Excel.
John Ziaja