VB Compile Error Message Starting/Ending Excel 2003

[Ricky Copeland]

Upon entering and exiting Excel 2003 I get an error
window that pops up with MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC in the
blue bar at the top and a message reading "Compile error
in hidden module: xxx". Upon entering, the xxx reads
AutoExecNew. When closing, the xxx reads DistMon. I
click OK and Excel seems to run properly but it's obvious
something is wrong. I downloaded the latest Office
service pack and fixes, but that didn't help either. I
also get the same message entering/exiting Word.

Can anybody help me out?

 

[Doug Banner]

I have a new machine (Office XP),just set-up yesterday
and it is doing the same thing. I'm curious to find out
what it is.

 

[Charles Williams]

I think DistMon is an Adobe Acrobat addin. You probably need to remove it


Charles
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[Ricky Copeland]

Doug,

My machine is several months old but my Office had to be
reloaded due to a virus. That's when the problem
started. I sent an email to Microsoft but who know how
long that will take to get an answer from. I've just now
got all of my options and customizations reset so I do
not want to have to re-install Office again. That would
probably fix it however. Keep me up to date if you run
across any fix.

Thanks,
Ricky Copeland

 

[Charles Williams]

See this article for more details, basically assuming you dont want to use
adbobe acrobat with excel then search for and delete pdfwriter.xla.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307410

 

[Ricky Copeland]

Doug,

I found a way to get rid of our problem. A guy sent me
the below URL that identifies the probem and gives an
easy to fix it. I chose Method 2 and Excel and Word now
work perfectly. If you can't get to the website via this
forum's limited space for URL's, email your actual email
address and I will forward to you what the gentlemen sent
me. Good luck!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;q307410


Ricky Copeland
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