I have windows xp with office. when I go into start/programs and click on
excel...system asks me if I want to install...and excel won't come up (was
working fine until a few weeks ago)

but if I go into my computer....find office under prgrams and click on
excel...I get msg about installing excel, but I can bypass it and excel come
uo.

what is causing this and what is slution

Tony

A couple of things to try............

HelpDetect and Repair may get you going again.

Alternative....................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:54:04 -0700, tony wrote:

I have windows xp with office. when I go into start/programs and click on
excel...system asks me if I want to install...and excel won't come up (was
working fine until a few weeks ago)

but if I go into my computer....find office under prgrams and click on
excel...I get msg about installing excel, but I can bypass it and excel come
uo.

what is causing this and what is slution

Yes, this fixed it...excel comes up fine now

thanks so very much!

Tony


"tony" wrote:

I have windows xp with office. when I go into start/programs and click on
excel...system asks me if I want to install...and excel won't come up (was
working fine until a few weeks ago)

but if I go into my computer....find office under prgrams and click on
excel...I get msg about installing excel, but I can bypass it and excel come
uo.

what is causing this and what is slution

Tony

Thanks for the feedback.

Just curious........I proposed two alternate solutions.

Can you post back and let us know which of the two did the job?


Gord

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:54:01 -0700, tony wrote:

Yes, this fixed it...excel comes up fine now

thanks so very much!

Tony


"tony" wrote:

I have windows xp with office. when I go into start/programs and click on
excel...system asks me if I want to install...and excel won't come up (was
working fine until a few weeks ago)

but if I go into my computer....find office under prgrams and click on
excel...I get msg about installing excel, but I can bypass it and excel come
uo.

what is causing this and what is slution