An interesting thought!
The installation of Office 2003 overwrote the pre-existing installation of
Office XP (2000). At one point during the installation, one could select
which components to install and at that point I could have chosen to
deselect Excel. The same installation program would allow me now to modify
the installation of Office 2003 and eliminate Excel, but I feel a little
uneasy about afterwards installing the older Excel 2000, which is part of
Office XP.
It would probably be safer to uninstall the whole Office 2003, install the
complete Office XP, then install Office 2003 over it, this time without
Excel.
On second -- or rather fifth -- thought I think I shall buy the MYOB upgrade
V13, after all. My current version 10 must be four or five years old and if
I average the upgrade cost of GBP 179 over that period it feels less
painful. And the new version does have one new feature that will come in
handy, and another that I should like to play around with. Charge it to
entertainment expenses