excel will not run

[Conrad Buttle]

when I try to start excel it only runs for a few seconds and then returns to whatever else I am running even when I have nothing else running. I have removed works suite and office and reinstalled only office but this still doesn't work, help me please i only bought my laptop to do do my accounts whilst working away.

[John Bolene]

A bit more information required.

OS level, Office version, memory in machine, any other details that might help.

I have never had this problem with any of the Office versions and I go back to the DOS versions of Word and multimate (going to Excel was a blessing over multimate).

Do you have registered versions? Pirated copies may have been changed.

[Richard Darling]

Conrad, Are you are starting excel from the icon on your desktop? Try running from your start button; by selecting:
Start, Programs, Excel (form the list of programs), if that works it is your icon. Then right-click on start, explore, windows, start menu, programs, right-click the excel icon and send it to your desktop. You should be ok then. Let me know...
RD