Excel 2000 won't open

[Keith]

I have Office 2000 Premium installed on a computer running
Windows 98. Out of nowhere, Excel stopped working. If I
try to open a file from Explorer, it locks up the
computer. If I try to open Excel directly, it locks up
the computer. I tried uninstalling Office completely and
then reinstalling , but that didn't fix it. Unfortunately
there are no error messages to report. Has anyone else
experienced this behavior?

Thanks,

Keith

 

[Chip Pearson]

Keith,

See www.cpearson.com/excel/startuperrors.htm for some possible
remedies.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Keith!

Have you tried opening Excel in Safe Mode:

Click Run on the Start menu.
Type the path to Excel.exe, and add the appropriate switches. For
example, use the following command line
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /s
OK

This starts Excel bypassing any file in the Startup folder, Addins and
Toolbar changes.

But I would suspect a bloated Excel.xlb file.

Do a search for it and if it is above around 30KB it is probably
bloated and can be deleted.

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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
(e-mail address removed)
Excel and Word Function Lists (Classifications, Syntax and Arguments)
available free to good homes.

 

[dj]

-----Original Message-----
I have Office 2000 Premium installed on a computer running
Windows 98. Out of nowhere, Excel stopped working. If I
try to open a file from Explorer, it locks up the
computer. If I try to open Excel directly, it locks up
the computer. I tried uninstalling Office completely and
then reinstalling , but that didn't fix it. Unfortunately
there are no error messages to report. Has anyone else
experienced this behavior?

Thanks,

Keith

I have a similar problem but I get this message.

Program Error

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

An error log is being created.


I don't know where the error log is located.

I too, have uninstalled Excel and Office and then reloaded
the program without success.