Excel 2000 not opening

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Scott @ MK

Greetings -
I am unable to open Excel 2000 anymore. I have
successfully un-installed Office 2000 and successfully re-
installed it with no luck. I can open all other Office
2000 applications, yet Excel 2000 will not open. I am
running Windows 98SE on a P3-700 with 256 Ram and a 40gb
HD. I have scanned the drive with the latest NAV defs and
found nothing. I have run SCANDISK and DEFRAG as well.
Looking into the registry - I have not located anything
unusual. Obviously I am missing something here.

Can anyone offer any assistance with this one?
Thank you in advance
Scott
 
Scott

Try locating file ending in .xlb. Note it's location and move it. Now try
starting Excel. If it works you have a corrupt toolbar customisation file.
(Excel creates a new one if it can't find one.)

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
 
I still have this same problem which started over a week
ago. I don't know the answer to the problem, but I hope
the following will add additional informaiton introuble
shooting this.

I'm also running Windows 98 (4.10.1998)on a Dell PIII
Processor, downloaded all updates, Norton Antivirus runs
constantly, and defragged and scanned my hard drive. I
tried reinstalling two versions of Office 2000: Office
2000 Premium and Office 2000 Small Business. I still
cannot open Excell. I down loaded Microsoft Excell 97
Viewer so I can at least open my files in a read only mode.

I then tried to open my excell files on another computer:
Dell Insipiron 2500 Laptop running Windows 2000
Professional. I was able to initially open my files and
began updating it on a zip disk. Then it too froze and
had to close it out.

The only correlation between the two crashes are these
files. I tried to remember the initial error messages
which had to do with cannot resolve imbedded macros. Now
it just displays a dialog box saying an error occurred and
freezes up my computer. One file is a macro that
automatically updates stock prices according to a macro
list I entered. The other file is a spreadsheet that I
copy the updated stock prices.

Please help.

Joe
 
Nick,

After I posted my reply I noted your recommendation. I
just tried it and it worked! Many thanks. I hope it also
works for Scott.

Joe
 
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