Error opening Publisher files with links to Excel

[Anthony Ponton]

When opening my Publisher file with tables linked to Excel, I get an error
message which says 'Microsoft Excel has experienced an error and needs to
shut down' I have successfully opened these linked files many times
previously. I repaired both Excel and Publisher to no effect then reinstalled
them also to no effect. I have plenty of RAM (512MB) and the combined
Publisher and Excel files amount to just about 15MB.

I allowed the error message to be sent to Microsoft, often this directs to a
solution but there was no feedback.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks,

 

[Mary Sauer]

What does the details of the error say?
You receive an error message and then the program quits unexpectedly when you use a
program of Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835262

 

[Anthony Ponton]

I checked this out (reduced hardware acceleration) and it made no difference.
I was only running Excel and Publisher at the time. The problem only happens
when using Publisher ( I tried linking the same files into Powerpoint without
the issue appearing). The message only said what I wrote previously. I'll
email you a screenshot if that's OK.

Thanks

Anthony.