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.

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.