Excel startup bug: VBA Run-time error 76??

[Steve Conover]

Help, please.

Yesterday, Excel started giving me error messages whenever I
start it up. I uninstalled Office 2000, reinstalled it, and I
still get the same error.

Here is what happens. MS Visual Basic displays a dialog box that
says:
Run-time error '76':
Path not found

When I hit the debug button, it highlights (in yellow) the
following line of code:
lengthOfFile = Filelen(registryValue)

What should I do to fix this annoying problem?

Steve


Delete the ZZZ.
It keeps spam
off the server.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Start it with a switch

"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\excel.exe" /s

(replace the path with your path and folder names etc keep the quotations)

When open uncheck all the add-ins and restart, if you get the same message
look in the startup folder
and move everything out of there and restart again. If you don't get the
message after restarting when you have unchecked the add-ins check them one
by one until you get the error again thus finding the culprit.
If you have any files in your startup folder, move all files and put them
back one by one to try to pinpoint the error

 

[Steve Conover]

Thank you. I removed a file from the startup folder, and now
everything works properly.

Steve

Start it with a switch

"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\excel.exe" /s

(replace the path with your path and folder names etc keep the quotations)

When open uncheck all the add-ins and restart, if you get the same message
look in the startup folder
and move everything out of there and restart again. If you don't get the
message after restarting when you have unchecked the add-ins check them one
by one until you get the error again thus finding the culprit.
If you have any files in your startup folder, move all files and put them
back one by one to try to pinpoint the error

Delete the ZZZ.
It keeps spam
off the server.

 

[Carla D Bookie :\)]

This also works for the Excel 97 (run in W2K) startup error message: "Microsoft Visual Basic: Code execution is interrupted."

We had just switched from AOL dial-up to a T1 line, and Excel started giving the above message everytime it was opened. Turned out to be the "Internet Assistant Wizard" (whatever that is) in the Add-Ins. Unchecked it, and no more little gray box.

Thanx!

Carla