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Old 08-07-2003, 12:55 AM   #1
Carla
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When I try to open excel, its starts opening hundreds of
worksheets and doesn't stop until it runs out of memory.
What can I do? I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no
luck. Thanks
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Old 08-07-2003, 02:01 AM   #2
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Hi Carla,

Years ago we used to see this problem multiple times a day. It was cased
by a bad version of the Excel add-in used by a 3rd party program (exactly
which program escapes me at the moment, I think it was Acrobat). At any
rate, use Windows Explorer to navigate to your XLStart directory, which will
be located at:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\XLStart\

assuming you did a default installation. Remove any files you find there and
then try starting Excel. If this is your problem, doing the above should
solve it.

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Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
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"Carla" <ewmn22@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> When I try to open excel, its starts opening hundreds of
> worksheets and doesn't stop until it runs out of memory.
> What can I do? I have uninstalled and reinstalled with no
> luck. Thanks



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