Excel suddenly close

[Guest]

Dear Sir,

Excel file will automatically close with an error message 'EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will nedd to restart the program. An error log is being created.' I'm using excel 2000 and os is windows 2000. This error is always prompt up recently and I don't know why. Please advise it.

Thanks.
Eva

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi,

Options to try and open a corrupt file

- Set calculation to manual
- open the file, but disable macros (assuming you've set
macro security to medium: Tools, Macro, security)
- As soon as you've clicked the disable macros button,
press control-pageup or control-pagedown, thus changing
sheets.

If that does not work, try creating a link to the file:

='c:\my documents\[MyFileName.xls]Sheet1'!A1

and copy right and down. This at least gets you the
worksheets values.

if you don't know the sheet names, enter this:

='C:\PathToFile\[MyFileName.xls]'!A1

and press enter

If XL (2000) is able to extract them, it will prompt you
for a sheet name.

Sometimes the Excel viewer, Word or even Internet explorer
(v5) enables you to open the file and copy information out
of it.

If the file is not protected, maybe you can open it with
OpenOffice (www.Openoffice.org).

Also, Excel XP can sometimes repair XL files with trouble.


Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

-----Original Message-----
Dear Sir,

Excel file will automatically close with an error

message 'EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed
by Windows. You will nedd to restart the program. An error
log is being created.' I'm using excel 2000 and os is
windows 2000. This error is always prompt up recently and
I don't know why. Please advise it.