Excel Disappears when I tried to edit Macro

[Guest]

I have looked high and low for a similar problem to no avail. I am using
Microsoft Office 2003 and my problem is with Excel (2003). The problem
arises if I want to edit a Macro in Excel - the minute I go to edit,
everything in Excel is shut down.. do error message, nada.. just evaporates.
Prior to when this originally happened (about a month ago), everything has
worked like a charm. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Bill Manville]

Does the same happen if you Alt+F11 to the VB editor?

First thing I would try would be Help > Detect and Repair

Bill Manville
MVP - Microsoft Excel, Oxford, England

 

[Guest]

Bill - Many thanks for your suggestions. I did try both the Detect and
Repair to no avail and the Alt+F11 and neither seem to have an effect. The
minute I try to edit a Macro in my Personal Macro, Excel and all files that
were open disappear!

Still puzzled!

 

[Bill Manville]

So, if you record a macro into a new workbook and go to edit that macro
Excel stays put - it's only your PERSONAL.XLS that is causing the
problem?

If not, it sounds like a problem with the VB editor.
- first, in the VB editor go to Add-Ins > Add-In Manager and remove
the ticks on Loaded for each installed add-in: does that change the
behaviour?

If it is only PERSONAL.XLS with the problem, it sounds like a problem
with PERSONAL.XLS

I would first try moving your PERSONAL.XLS from XLSTART to another
directory and rename it.

Then try recording a macro into your personal macro workbook (which
will create a new one) and see if you can edit that.

If so, copy the macros you need from the old one to the new one and
delete the old one.

Bill Manville
MVP - Microsoft Excel, Oxford, England