Nick

Sounds like your file associations could be bad. Try re-registering these
Applications.

For Excel.........

First try the standard fix(es)......ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "ignore
other applications"

OR StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /regserver

For Word...........

StartRun "winword.exe /r" (no quotes and note the space before the /
mark). Again, you may have to enter the full path to winword.exe

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:51:03 -0800, NickLodge
wrote:

After installing SP3 - which installs with no errors I have all sorts of
problems with office. When I try to start Excel I get a message "unable to
read file". If a try to open an existing excel document I get the same error
and the documment will not open.

In Word I get an error saying cannot open template,and when I try to close
it down it says "the file Normal already exists. Do you want to replace the
existing file.

Does anybody have any ideas ??