Excel and other Msft product will not load

I purchased my laptop computer from a private business
going out of business - when starting excel, apparently
there is a file missing that the Office XP installer needs
named STD.MSI It is looking for the network which it
would previously link up with to perform an update or to
synchronize.

The business is no longer there and Excel and Outlook are
affected this way. Word works fine. How do I get these
programs to load and work without this file?

any help would be much appreciated!!!!!

I guess the question is "did you buy copies of excel (and
word) with the laptop. If so then you'd probably be
better off re-installing "office". Suggesting that
Outlook is having problems too probasly means the OS
needs installing also.
Any customisations by the previous owner would be negated
this way, do a clean insatll
Regards, rob
>-----Original Message-----
>I purchased my laptop computer from a private business
>going out of business - when starting excel, apparently
>there is a file missing that the Office XP installer
needs
>named STD.MSI It is looking for the network which it
>would previously link up with to perform an update or to
>synchronize.
>
>The business is no longer there and Excel and Outlook
are
>affected this way. Word works fine. How do I get these
>programs to load and work without this file?
>
>any help would be much appreciated!!!!!
>
>.
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