Excel 2000

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I cannot open Excel. I deleted it and reinstalled.
Still cannot open. I am not getting any errors. All my
other programs in Office 2000 work. I read over the
other questions and answers asked about Excel but nothing
helps!!! Any suggestions?
 
Hi Mary,
I cannot open Excel. I deleted it and reinstalled.
Still cannot open. I am not getting any errors. All my
other programs in Office 2000 work. I read over the
other questions and answers asked about Excel but nothing
helps!!! Any suggestions?

Have you tried opening in safe mode?

Start, run,

"c:\program files\Microsoft office\office\Excel.exe" /safe

(quotes mandatory, check if the path is correct)

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
www.jkp-ads.com
 
I am having the same problem. I tried opening in safe
made and it opened, but I don't know what to do now. How
can I fix the problem so that I can open Excel in normal
mode?

Thanks, Carl
 
Hi Carl,
I tried opening in safe
made and it opened, but I don't know what to do now. How
can I fix the problem so that I can open Excel in normal
mode?

This is a default list of things-to-do when Excel exhibits startup
problems.

Try opening Excel without any addins or hidden workbooks:

Start, Run,
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Automation

Quotes mandatory, Note you may have to change the path.

If your error disappears, there is either an add-in or a (hidden)
workbook that is loaded upon XL's start, which bothers you.

- Try locating the XLSTART directory, move everything from there.
- In XL: Tools, Addins, note the ones checked and uncheck them one at
the time, each time restarting XL
- In XL, Tools, options, general. Check if a path is entered after
"Alternate startup file location". Clear it.

Another option is to open XL in Safe mode:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Safe

Also, you might try:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver

Yet another possible problem is a corruption of your toolbar
customisation file. Locate all files with extension .xlb and rename the
extension(s) to something like .old
Now try and start XL again.

Also, NAV has shown to cause "Excel caused an invalid page
fault in module VBE6.DLL".
You might try disabling the Office plug in of NAV.

Other causes may be a full TEMP folder:

In Windows 95/98 and ME

Delete all files in C:\Windows\Temp

In Windows NT/2000/XP

Find and Select C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\local settings\temp
and delete all files in there.

They are often left behind by installing programs but Excel needs the
space.

This is what MS has to say about startup problems:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q280504

And this about startup switches:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q211481



Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
www.jkp-ads.com
 
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