Any suggestions on work around the following error
message;

"Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
Windows. You need to restart the program.

An error log is being created."

All of my other Office 2000 apps work fine. I tried the
Office 2000 repair and no luck.

Would appreciate any help.

TIA,

Jim

Hi Jim,

> Any suggestions on work around the following error
> message;
>
> "Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
> Windows. You need to restart the program.
>

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...;en-us;Q280504

And this about startup switches:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q211481



Regards,

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

I have had the same problem and have found that renaming
the custom toolbar excel.xlb file to .old fixed the
problem.

This problem seems to have ocurred only after a virus was
found and cleaned on my Win 98 Machine
Cheers
Odge
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Jim,
>
>> Any suggestions on work around the following error
>> message;
>>
>> "Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
>> Windows. You need to restart the program.
>>
>
>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
>
>.
>