Lost MS Excel, can't re-install MS Office

[Guest]

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.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

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..

 

[Richard Urban]

Put in the Office CD. Run setup. You will be given an option to repair your
present installation.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Guest]

I tried re-installing, but I get the 'Setup has stopped working ....' failure
message beforeI get any choice of options.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

read following pages

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/

 

[Guest]

after fixing, remove Office and reinstall Office

read following pages

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/

 

[Guest]

removing office at control panel

after fixing, remove Office and reinstall Office