unwanted shutdown

[rick]

When I have a lot of excel spreadsheets open and close one
they all shutdown (weird) without being able to save them
or anything. I have ask IT and looked over multiple
websites (including this one) for the answer with no luck
can some please help.

THX

 

[rick]

That wasn't it there is an .EXE error

-----Original Message-----
You aren't by any chance hitting the X in the very top

right of the screen are you. Excel is not

like Word in that you can shut down single documents that

way. There are two Xs at the top right

of the screen - one is for Excel the application, and the

one just inside that is for the Excel

file that you have open. Clicking the file one will

close the file, but clicking the application

 

[Ken Wright]

What is the error message?

 

[rick]

(EXCEl.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
windows. You will need to restart the program.)

Then all the open excel windows close.

 

[Ken Wright]

OK, couple of things spring to mind that you might want to try:-

1) Try renaming your *.xlb file to *.xlbold. This is the toolbar customisation file, and
versions prior to 2002 seems to cause all kinds of problems when it gets a bit bloated. Excel
will simply create a new one when you start it up. You will lose all your customisations
obviously, but if that doesn't fix it you can also delete the new one and rename your old one
back.

2) Shut Down Excel and then do Start / Run and type in excel.exe /regserver which will reset all
the defaults for Excel in Windows' registry