Excel does not start

[Steve]

Excel in Office XP does not start. After clicking the
icon the first screen (very quickly) dislays but goes
away. Nothing else happens after that. ???

 

[Mike]

If you have not tried to re-install excel. Do so.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Chip Pearson has a web page devoted to diagnosing this kind of error:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm