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"adriennewade" wrote in message
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I have Excel 2003 already but recently everytime I click on it a screen
pops
up saying "Preparing to install..." so then I go and search for excel,
click
on it and it opens, so I made it a shortcut and later when I went back to
it,
once again it said the same thing. It even doesn't work when I click on
saved
excel sheets, it won't open them, it will just try to "install" it again.
Its
getting quite annoying