J
Judith Gauthier
It seems I am not alone. Reading the past few days of
submissions indicated something nasty is happening to
Excel. One morning it worked and in the afternoon it
didn't. No viruses or worms or other anomolies. Symptoms
include a malfunctioning path through Start (deleting it
and creating a short cut through here corrected this) and
the inability to open .xls files through My Documents or
Outlook Express without oking several file not found
screens. It is treating all paths and file names
separately (as someone else noticed), says it cannot find
them (one at a time), then loads the darn thing anyway.
Wants to find "My.xls" which exists no where in any form.
Annoying but not crippling. I spent 2 hours on the phone
with a techie and while we got the program running again
(that pesky shortcut) it did not solve the problem. He
thought a registry problem may have corrupted the shortcut
but we were unaware that opening from other applications
was time consuming. I attacked my system with Norton Win
Doctor but nothing turned up. Using find and fix for
office causes a lockup and no joy. Kernal 32.dll errors
abound. Maybe an undetectable macro virus? Like someone
else, I have been having problems following upgrades - one
even wiped out my sound drivers - and there was one the
same day my problems began. If anyone sees a solution
yell loud.
JG
submissions indicated something nasty is happening to
Excel. One morning it worked and in the afternoon it
didn't. No viruses or worms or other anomolies. Symptoms
include a malfunctioning path through Start (deleting it
and creating a short cut through here corrected this) and
the inability to open .xls files through My Documents or
Outlook Express without oking several file not found
screens. It is treating all paths and file names
separately (as someone else noticed), says it cannot find
them (one at a time), then loads the darn thing anyway.
Wants to find "My.xls" which exists no where in any form.
Annoying but not crippling. I spent 2 hours on the phone
with a techie and while we got the program running again
(that pesky shortcut) it did not solve the problem. He
thought a registry problem may have corrupted the shortcut
but we were unaware that opening from other applications
was time consuming. I attacked my system with Norton Win
Doctor but nothing turned up. Using find and fix for
office causes a lockup and no joy. Kernal 32.dll errors
abound. Maybe an undetectable macro virus? Like someone
else, I have been having problems following upgrades - one
even wiped out my sound drivers - and there was one the
same day my problems began. If anyone sees a solution
yell loud.
JG