Learning Excel

I am a newbie to Excel and have Works 4.0 on my aging mobo.

Specs are :
Processor .. Pentium with MMX[TM] technology
233 MHZ
Cache ram ..512 kB

BIOS: Intel Corp. 4A3NT0X0.04A.0010.P01 06/25/97

Motherboard .... Intel AN430TX AA672839-305

Chipset ....... 82430TX

Windows 95 B (OSR2)
Sony Corporation PCV-150(U2) 28550830
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
4.30 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1.86 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-529SV
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")
Generic IDE hard disk drive -- drive 255
QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A [Hard drive] (4.31 GB) --
drive 0, s/n 154719712976, rev A0F.0900
64 Megabytes Installed Memory

I attempted to install Excel 2000XP but the system asked for a later O/S.
My next move was to install Excel 97 Viewer , the choice of which is that
I have found a book :Teach yourself Microsoft Excel in 24 hrs.

The problem now is that despite the viewer is installed I can't get it to open as a Set Up window pops up with 2 buttons : top ..Reinstall [that is greyed out] and bottom : "Remove All" with the words : Remove all previously installed components.
Could someone please advise me on how to open the Viewer. Thanks

All you will be able to do with the viewer is open exel files. You wont be able to change anything or enter any data into the sheet. Not sure if that is what you are trying to do. I suggest remove it from your Add/Remove programs section of Control Panel, then try again.

Matt