John

You may want to completely uninstall Office 97 and try a re-install.

Removing is not so easy as just add/remove.

See this KB article and note the links to the removal wizard tool and other
utilities.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158658/


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:35:41 -0700, john f
wrote:

My Excel 97 stopped working several months ago. It is part of Office 97
Small Business Edition. I have uninstalled Excel and then re-installed it.
That did not help. I tried to uninstall the entire Office suite (so that I
could re-install it) but got an error message regarding a
"set up initialization error". So the Office uninstall process did not work.

All of my Excel files are intact and I can read them. But I cannot creat
new files or modify old ones. Word is working fine. Can anyone help me out
with this. Thanks. John F.