excell problems

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excell worked fine and one day it started locking up the
computer. It give me a low resources and on some times it
gives me the error "oe 0187:bff9dfff" I have tried
uninstalling and reinstall and it does not work. any help
or possible answers would be helpful.
TFH
 
tfh said:
excell worked fine and one day it started locking up the
computer. It give me a low resources and on some times it
gives me the error "oe 0187:bff9dfff" I have tried
uninstalling and reinstall and it does not work. any help
or possible answers would be helpful.
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Hi THF,

This isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, but it's worth a try. Use
Windows Explorer to search all of your hard disks for files with a .XLB
extension. Delete any that you find. Note that this may be a hidden file, so
you'll need to set Explorer to show hidden files before searching. Excel
uses these files to store information about its toolbar configuration, but
they frequently become corrupt and cause strange errors like this. Excel
will create clean new default versions after you delete the old corrupt
ones, but you will lose any toolbar customizations you've made.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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Hi THF,

This isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, but it's worth a try. Use
Windows Explorer to search all of your hard disks for files with a .XLB
extension. Delete any that you find. Note that this may be a hidden file, so
you'll need to set Explorer to show hidden files before searching. Excel
uses these files to store information about its toolbar configuration, but
they frequently become corrupt and cause strange errors like this. Excel
will create clean new default versions after you delete the old corrupt
ones, but you will lose any toolbar customizations you've made.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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This works. Excel opened for me right after deleting
the .XLB file. Thanks for the solution.
 
Keith said:
This works. Excel opened for me right after deleting
the .XLB file. Thanks for the solution.
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Hi Keith,

Great to hear it worked! And thanks for letting me know. It's very
helpful for problem solving in the future.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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It works! I have spent many hours with one of our PC's
trying to solve this problem by uninstalling,
reintsalling, etc. A total restore of the drive was the
only solution. It would happen about every six months & i
would do a total restore. It happened again today this
solved the problem. Thank you.
 
Hi Gene,

Glad to hear it worked for you, and thanks for letting me know!

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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