WOW! What an ordeal! I went through 3 pages I found on the web to uninstall Office 2008. It went 'fairly' well, although some of the items they told me to remove from various folders weren't there.

I reinstalled and, although Excel now runs, there were two issues: 1. The updater would not run. (I have since gone to Microsoft and run the updater from there, and it appears to be OK.) 2. When I open document A, it also opens document B. (That condition still is there, although it is liveable.)

I appreciate your suggestion to bite the bullet and buy Office 2011. I really, really hope it doesn't give me the fits that this one has. I will probably do that this weekend. I have just about fried my little brain tonight.

With your help, Paul, at least I am up and if not running, at least limping quickly. Thank you very much!!
Warren