Excel files will not load

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I have Office Xp and I transfered some files from comp A
to compB and compC. On compB the files load just fine.
However on compC when you click on the file nothing
happens. they're located in MyDocuments and they are
standard excel files. I've tried to erase them and
recopy them from the floppy disk and I've tried several
different copies. If I open Excel first then do a File
Open and pull them from the disk it works, but if I do a
File Open and pull them from MyDocuments nothing
happens. What could be wrong?
 
Hi,

Open Excel and check if:

Tools, Options, General, "Ignore other applications" is
checked. If so, uncheck.

Other things to try:

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 TA/MVP
 
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