"Excel has stopped working" - WHY???????!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Using Vista + Office 2003, nearly every time I close a file in Excel it
stops working. I keep getting the rather useful messages telling me it's
stopped working and then that it's restarting, where it then throws up copies
of all the recent Excel documents I've been working on, which I then have to
sift through or "delete" rather nervously hoping I haven't lost anything
important! It's driving me mad!!

Example when it happens is... open an Excel document, print it, then close
it again using the "x" in the top right corner. Repeat this again but close
it using "File", "Exit" and Excel stopped working again.

I have tried using the Detect and Repair option under the Help menu, but
this hasn't solved the problem.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Guest]

File > Exit will stop Excel. If you want Excel to continue then use:
File > Close

Remember that in the extremetop right hand corner of Excel there are two
x-buttons. Touch the lower and the file closes. Touch the upper and Excel
closes.

 

[Guest]

Haha!! Sorry, had to laugh, erm.... yes well aware of the difference between
exit and close, and the two "x" buttons.

I am trying to either close Excel or the file - either way, I get the error
message come up which says "Excel has stopped working", then "Excel is trying
to restart" - sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

If it does I get all the retrieved files, that I have been working on
recently, listed on the left hand side of the screen. Quite clearly
something is wrong!

 

[Guest]

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j.f.dolan

 

[Guest]

Can anyone offer any help on this please????

Haha!! Sorry, had to laugh, erm.... yes well aware of the difference between
exit and close, and the two "x" buttons.

I am trying to either close Excel or the file - either way, I get the error
message come up which says "Excel has stopped working", then "Excel is trying
to restart" - sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

If it does I get all the retrieved files, that I have been working on
recently, listed on the left hand side of the screen. Quite clearly
something is wrong!

 

[Guest]

I'm using Excel 2003 on a XP box.

I've written a event handler that fires when you click on a cell. If there
is an error in the procedure, any error, mismatch, out of range, etc. stop
the procedure I make the appropriate change, save it and then go to the main
sheet to click on a new cell which should take me to the event procedure I
wrote. It does not. I have to completely shutdown excel and start it back up
and then I can click on a cell and have it fire the event.

Any ideas as to why I have to do this?