installing excel 97 on a newer machine

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Brian - 11 Oct 2003 17:32 GMT

I recently got a new machine running Windows XP Home
Edition. I'm trying to install actually the whole suite
of Office 97. Excel, however, is the most important to
me. When I put the cd in, the computer doesnt recognize
that there's a disk there. I've tried the disk
sucessfully on a roommates computer, and tried other disks
sucessfully in my computer. I'd like to install
everything if I can, but definitely Excel 97. Any
suggestions?

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_Bigred - 12 Oct 2003 07:59 GMT

try doing a ctrl+alt+del to pull up the task manager.

Close down as many things as possible, and then try to install. I had this
problem on my xp machine, and after shutting down several things running in
the background it installed without further problems and ran properly.

Let me know,
_Bigred

> I recently got a new machine running Windows XP Home
> Edition. I'm trying to install actually the whole suite
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> everything if I can, but definitely Excel 97. Any
> suggestions?

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