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Jw

Hi, everyone,

I open to MS Excel 97, the following error messages was shown on screen.

26146100: file format is not valid.

Please help

Thanks
Jimmy
 
Something that is being opened is causing trouble.

It could be an addin checked in Tools|Addins or a file in your XLStart folder
(or if you are using tools|options|General|"Alternate Startup File location", it
could be in there.)

(Not many use the alternate startup file location, so try erasing that value
from that box in excel--don't delete the real folder. If that fixed it, you're
done.)

If not, your task will be to uncheck everything in tools|addins, remove all the
files from the XLStart (and alternate startup location) and start adding things
back one by one.

And restart excel between each change--until you find the culprit.

Chip Pearson has some additional notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm
 
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