I've encountered this. While I'm not sure what causes the problem, I do know
that only putting in the disk as requested will resolve it.

In the meantime, you may hit "Cancel" as many times as necessary and Excel
should start. There's some component that Excel thinks it needs to install
(or re-install).
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Adios,
Clay Harryman


"cork" wrote:

Started up computer this morning and everytime I try to open Excel the
computer tries to install excel instead of just opening the existing program.
I have had excel for more than a year and using explorer I can see that excel
is still installed on my machine.

Does any one know how to get this program to run, or am I just going to have
to get our tech support people to find the factory install disk and
re-install?
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cork