This sounds like a trial version of Office 2007 that has now expired.
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Chris John wrote:
After 2 months of light use of Microsoft Word & Excel
both programmes have stopped working.
I uninstalled & reloaded but the programmes do not accept
data & the task bar refuses to function.
How can this be solved
Chris