Thank you Allen for the information. Yes you are right it is just
opening as a flash and then closing without letting you do anything
with the program. I was hoping there was some other alternative to
reformatting my hard drive and starting over, but I guess that may be
the only way to fix the problem. Thanks again!!

Ronda


Allen wrote:
Hi,
Is your excel opening as as a flash and closes away without permitted
you to do any thing if this is happening with your excel then only
option that remains with u is u will have to format u r machine and
reinstall excel

thanks
Allen

On Dec 20, 11:57 pm, wrote:
Can any one please tell me why this is happening?

I am running Excel 2003 on a machine with Windows 2000 Professional
operating system. When I try to open the Excel program (or any Excel
file), Excel starts to open and then closes automatically. It is only
happening with this Office program - none of the others.

Thank you so much for your help!