Excel 2000 startup problems

[Liz]

In Access, using Tools-Office Links-Anyalyze with Excel I
get the following error:

MICROSOFT ACCESS CANNOT START THE OLE SERVER
You tried to use a form, report or datasheet that contains
an OLE object,
but the OLE server (the application used to create the
object) may not be
registered properly. Reinstall the OLE server to register
it correctly.

I can use Office Links for Word and I can do File-Export
for Excel.

I get this error when trying to open Excel attachments to
emails:
THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE FILE SPECIFIED

and, this error when I try to open Excel files from
Explorer:

F:\Special\HomeBase Program etc...... is not a valid
path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly
and that you are connected to the server on which the file
resides.

I can, however, open the same file if I am in Excel.

Did a Knowledge Base search and tried unregister/register
Excel. No good. Reinstalled Office, no Good.

Ideas are appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Liz,

This could be caused by a couple things. First try using the
/regserver switch which will recreate various Registry entries and
rebuild the file associations. Go to Start/Run and run:

excel /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

If that doesn't work then in Excel go to Tools/Options/General and
make sure "Ignore other applications" is not turned on.

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[Liz]

Thanks Beth,
You were exactly right. Needed to change the Ignore Other
Applications on the General Tab. Funny thing, the week
before it was working fine, and I didn't make any changes
through Options.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Liz,

Glad to hear all is running again.

I've heard of this happening to others and speculation is a
third-party macro or add-in changes this option.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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