Irritating "prompt" from Excel

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Wayne

Hello, I purchased a new notebook that has Windows XP Home
Edition installed. I loaded onto it Office 97 which i had
purchased some time ago for my desktop. Everything works
fine except that every time i open an Excel spreadsheet, i
get a box telling me that "a document with the same name
is already opened and i can't open two of them with the
same name..........so on, and so forth". It doesn't matter
if it's an old document, a new one, a copy of one, and so
on. About the only thing i haven't tried is removing the
software completely and reinstalling it (i'll do this when
i return home this coming Wednesday).

If anyone has any ideas?
Thanks, Wayne
 
Wayne,

Try re-registering Excel with Windows. Close Excel, then go to the Windows
Start menu, chose Run and enter

Excel.exe /regserver

This will cause Excel to start, re-write all of its registry keys, then
quit. Now, start Excel normally.

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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com (e-mail address removed)
 
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