Excel not saving or open files

I recently upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and after I installed all programs again include Office 2004, I've been having problem opening and saving files in excel. When I try to save a document it gives this message "Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'user:Documents'. And when I try to open a document it says " 'user document.xls' cannot be accessed." I removed the office twice and reinstalled it again.
I have no idea how to fix this problem.

Sounds like a permissions issue. Run Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Otherwise, since this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not related to Microsoft Office, you should really consider posting issues with Office on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac products as they would be focused more toward the issue than an Apple forum and there are Microsoft appointed MVPs there to assist.
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

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