Excel 2000 not opening

[Scott @ MK]

Greetings -
I am unable to open Excel 2000 anymore. I have
successfully un-installed Office 2000 and successfully re-
installed it with no luck. I can open all other Office
2000 applications, yet Excel 2000 will not open. I am
running Windows 98SE on a P3-700 with 256 Ram and a 40gb
HD. I have scanned the drive with the latest NAV defs and
found nothing. I have run SCANDISK and DEFRAG as well.
Looking into the registry - I have not located anything
unusual. Obviously I am missing something here.

Can anyone offer any assistance with this one?
Thank you in advance
Scott

 

[Nick Hodge]

Scott

Try locating file ending in .xlb. Note it's location and move it. Now try
starting Excel. If it works you have a corrupt toolbar customisation file.
(Excel creates a new one if it can't find one.)

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Joe]

I still have this same problem which started over a week
ago. I don't know the answer to the problem, but I hope
the following will add additional informaiton introuble
shooting this.

I'm also running Windows 98 (4.10.1998)on a Dell PIII
Processor, downloaded all updates, Norton Antivirus runs
constantly, and defragged and scanned my hard drive. I
tried reinstalling two versions of Office 2000: Office
2000 Premium and Office 2000 Small Business. I still
cannot open Excell. I down loaded Microsoft Excell 97
Viewer so I can at least open my files in a read only mode.

I then tried to open my excell files on another computer:
Dell Insipiron 2500 Laptop running Windows 2000
Professional. I was able to initially open my files and
began updating it on a zip disk. Then it too froze and
had to close it out.

The only correlation between the two crashes are these
files. I tried to remember the initial error messages
which had to do with cannot resolve imbedded macros. Now
it just displays a dialog box saying an error occurred and
freezes up my computer. One file is a macro that
automatically updates stock prices according to a macro
list I entered. The other file is a spreadsheet that I
copy the updated stock prices.

Please help.

Joe

 

[Guest]

Nick,

After I posted my reply I noted your recommendation. I
just tried it and it worked! Many thanks. I hope it also
works for Scott.

Joe

 

[Guest]

I am having the same proble hav you fixed it or is it
impossible.
matt