Add-in Problem

[Guest]

When I attempt menu Tools>Addins I get warning " Excel has encountered a
problem and needs to close. I have uninstalled excel and reinstalled but get
the same results. Any help would be appreciated. drjim

 

[Jim Rech]

How did the suggestion I made to your last post work out?

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Jim
| When I attempt menu Tools>Addins I get warning " Excel has encountered a
| problem and needs to close. I have uninstalled excel and reinstalled but
get
| the same results. Any help would be appreciated. drjim

 

[Jim Rech]

Never mind<g>. Just saw your answer.


--
Jim
| How did the suggestion I made to your last post work out?
|
| --
| Jim
| || When I attempt menu Tools>Addins I get warning " Excel has encountered a
|| problem and needs to close. I have uninstalled excel and reinstalled but
| get
|| the same results. Any help would be appreciated. drjim
|
|

 

[Jim Rech]

Do you have the problem starting in safe mode? (Start->Run "Excel.exe /s"
(no quotes)). If not uncheck anything that is selected there.

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Jim
| Never mind<g>. Just saw your answer.
|
|
| --
| Jim
| || How did the suggestion I made to your last post work out?
||
|| --
|| Jim
|| ||| When I attempt menu Tools>Addins I get warning " Excel has encountered a
||| problem and needs to close. I have uninstalled excel and reinstalled
but
|| get
||| the same results. Any help would be appreciated. drjim
||
||
|
|

 

[Guest]

when i enter excel.exe/s it will not run. It says that it cannot find the
file. It runs without the/s.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try it with a space between the excel.exe and the /s

 

[Guest]

The same message comes up. Could not find the file. But now the regular
Excel program comes up and reacts the same.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try it again. You've made a typing mistake.

If it fails again, copy from the Windows Start|Run dialog and share what you
tried.

 

[Guest]

Dave you were correct. It did come up in safe mode but I get the same
results with tools->add-in. A warning and shut down. I had used Excel.exe
/s over and over again from the history. When I deleted that and retyped
then it came up in safe mode.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have a guess. I was hoping that Jim's suggestion would help.

Depending on your version of excel, maybe
Help|Detect and repair would help

Or uninstalling and reinstalling would help.

(As much as I dislike uninstalling/reinstalling, maybe it'll help...)

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And one pure guess that has no reason to work--but it won't take much time to
try:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

ps. There's a space between excel and the slash.

Dave you were correct. It did come up in safe mode but I get the same
results with tools->add-in. A warning and shut down. I had used Excel.exe
/s over and over again from the history. When I deleted that and retyped
then it came up in safe mode.