Excel.exe has generated errors.

[Adeyinka]

Good day,

When a certain user logs on and tries to open a specific
file on the network, he gets this error, 'excel.exe has
generated errors and will be closed by windows. An error
log is been created'. If an administrator logs on
everything works fine and the user can also open other
files without such problems. The file can be open by
other users on other systems successfully.

Please if there is anyone out there with a solution to
this problem. I have removed and reinstalled office 2000,
I have deleted the clients local profile and it still
doesnt work.

Thanks in anticipation.

Yinka.

 

[Frank Isaacs]

It sounds like it is a permissions problem, since the administrator doesn't
have the same issue.

Try moving the file to the local hard drive and see if the problem persists.
If so, it's something to do with permissions; perhaps the user doesn't have
write access to the directory the file is in. It may also be something more
subtle, especially if your server is something other than Windows-based, as
other operating systems have different permissions which don't always map
directly to Windows permissions. If that's the case, try first granting all
permissions to see if it fixes the problem, then experiment with them to
find the least permissive set of permissions that gets the job done and
[hopefully] maintains security.

You don't say what the desktop OS is; if it's something which has user-level
security (an NTFS-based system), there may be a permissions problem locally
as well, so you may have to repeat the above locally.

Finally, it looks like you've covered this one, but I'd also try to have the
same user open it on a different machine. Since you re-installed Office,
this probably won't tell us much, but it should be easy to try if nothing
above helps.
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HTH -

-Frank
Microsoft Excel MVP
Dolphin Technology Corp.
http://vbapro.com