Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office Peter Gorman 7/1/2007 7:20:01 PM I have been running MS Office Small Business 2007 under Vista Home Premium on a Dell Dimension DXP061 quite successfully for 2 or 3 months now - until today. Suddenly, none of my Excel files will open. I notice that excel.exe in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12' is now of length zero bytes. I have tried to re-install MS Office from CD. The setup process starts but quickly fails with a very unhelpful message of the form 'Setup has stopped working ....' MS Word is still working OK. I'm not quite sure of the next step. If I uninstall MS Office completely and I still can't re-install it, then my PC is in an even worse state. I would be grateful of any suggestions. -- Peter Gorman

Re: Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter[ at ]hotnomail.com> 7/2/2007 12:29:43 AM You should ask this in an Excel/Office newsgroup: http://aumha.org/nntp.htm I would uninstall Office and then reinstall Office. If that causes problems, there are bigger problems than Excel and Office and you may need to solve them.. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "Peter Gorman" <quintessence(CutThisOut)[ at ]ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:7C7210EE-5C8D-4B63-A64A-97205C551165[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have been running MS Office Small Business 2007 under Vista Home >Premium on > a Dell Dimension DXP061 quite successfully for 2 or 3 months now - > until > today. Suddenly, none of my Excel files will open. I notice that > excel.exe > in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12' is now of length > zero bytes. > I have tried to re-install MS Office from CD. The setup process > starts but > quickly fails with a very unhelpful message of the form 'Setup has > stopped > working ....' > MS Word is still working OK. > I'm not quite sure of the next step. If I uninstall MS Office > completely > and I still can't re-install it, then my PC is in an even worse > state. > I would be grateful of any suggestions. > -- > Peter Gorman

Re: Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/2/2007 2:24:30 AM Put in the Office CD. Run setup. You will be given an option to repair your present installation. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "Peter Gorman" <quintessence(CutThisOut)[ at ]ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:7C7210EE-5C8D-4B63-A64A-97205C551165[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have been running MS Office Small Business 2007 under Vista Home Premium >on > a Dell Dimension DXP061 quite successfully for 2 or 3 months now - until > today. Suddenly, none of my Excel files will open. I notice that > excel.exe > in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12' is now of length zero > bytes. > I have tried to re-install MS Office from CD. The setup process starts > but > quickly fails with a very unhelpful message of the form 'Setup has stopped > working ....' > MS Word is still working OK. > I'm not quite sure of the next step. If I uninstall MS Office completely > and I still can't re-install it, then my PC is in an even worse state. > I would be grateful of any suggestions. > -- > Peter Gorman

Re: Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office Peter Gorman 7/2/2007 5:32:01 AM I tried re-installing, but I get the 'Setup has stopped working ....' failure message beforeI get any choice of options. -- Peter Gorman "Richard Urban" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Put in the Office CD. Run setup. You will be given an option to repair your > present installation. > > -- > > > Regards, > > Richard Urban > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User > (For email, remove the obvious from my address) > > > > "Peter Gorman" <quintessence(CutThisOut)[ at ]ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:7C7210EE-5C8D-4B63-A64A-97205C551165[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I have been running MS Office Small Business 2007 under Vista Home Premium > >on > > a Dell Dimension DXP061 quite successfully for 2 or 3 months now - until > > today. Suddenly, none of my Excel files will open. I notice that > > excel.exe > > in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12' is now of length zero > > bytes. > > I have tried to re-install MS Office from CD. The setup process starts > > but > > quickly fails with a very unhelpful message of the form 'Setup has stopped > > working ....' > > MS Word is still working OK. > > I'm not quite sure of the next step. If I uninstall MS Office completely > > and I still can't re-install it, then my PC is in an even worse state. > > I would be grateful of any suggestions. > > -- > > Peter Gorman > >

Re: Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office Peter Gorman 7/2/2007 5:36:00 AM I did try un-installing MS Office but that process failed half-way through - which is why I thought I had a Vista system problem rather than a straightforward MS Office problem. -- Peter Gorman "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > You should ask this in an Excel/Office newsgroup: > http://aumha.org/nntp.htm > > I would uninstall Office and then reinstall Office. > If that causes problems, there are bigger problems than Excel and > Office and you may need to solve them.. > > -- > Jupiter Jones [MVP] > http://www3.telus.net/dandemar > http://www.dts-l.org > > > "Peter Gorman" <quintessence(CutThisOut)[ at ]ntlworld.com> wrote in > message news:7C7210EE-5C8D-4B63-A64A-97205C551165[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I have been running MS Office Small Business 2007 under Vista Home > >Premium on > > a Dell Dimension DXP061 quite successfully for 2 or 3 months now - > > until > > today. Suddenly, none of my Excel files will open. I notice that > > excel.exe > > in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12' is now of length > > zero bytes. > > I have tried to re-install MS Office from CD. The setup process > > starts but > > quickly fails with a very unhelpful message of the form 'Setup has > > stopped > > working ....' > > MS Word is still working OK. > > I'm not quite sure of the next step. If I uninstall MS Office > > completely > > and I still can't re-install it, then my PC is in an even worse > > state. > > I would be grateful of any suggestions. > > -- > > Peter Gorman > >