Excel Crashes on Start Up

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spiroffkj

When opening the Excel Program , whether from the START menu, desktop
shortcut, toolbar or openning an Excel file, the program will open, become
visible on the screen for about 1/2 second then Excel immediately shuts down.

I Hhve uninstalled and re-installed the whole Office Suite, but the problem
persists only with Excel. All other Office Suite progams perform
appropriately.
 
First, what version of excel are you using?

Can you start excel in safe mode:

With excel closed
windows start button|Run
type:
excel /safe
and hit enter

If that works, I'd try moving/deleting my toolbar file. This file can get
corrupted.

Close excel.

use windows search to look for *.xlb
and delete all that you find (or move them to a safe location if you're worried)

And remember to look through hidden folders, too. People can have trouble
finding them.

If you can't find your files using windows start button|Search, then you could
use an old DOS command to search and delete/move them

Windows Start button|Run
type:
CMD
(to get to the Command prompt)

C:
(to get to the C: drive--change this to the drive that excel is installed on)

cd\
(to get to the root directory)

dir *.xlb /s

The /s says to search subfolders, too.

Make a note of the locations of the found files.

And delete/move them.

Then reopen excel (normally).

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I'm not sure what the next step is since you've uninstalled/reinstalled...
 
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