EXCEL 2008 keeps crashing upon launch

[Bill Damon]

Excel 2008 keeps crashing every time I launch it.

The basically undecipherable error message says something about
EXC_BAD_ACCESS etc.

Anyone having this problem? How did you fix it?

Office 2008 is enough to make me just run Office in Windows under Parallels.
It is much more stable there and besides, it launches much, much faster as
well.

 

[DSKing]

I am having this exact problem.

I need help too.

 

[Mike Middleton]

DSKing -

I did not have this exact problem, but I did have a problem with Mac Excel
2008 crashing on launch. I used the Remove Office utility, I installed Mac
Excel 2008, and I installed SP1. Pretty much everything works fine now.

- Mike Middleton
http://www.DecisionToolworks.com
Decision Analysis Add-ins for Excel

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Bill -

Unfortunately you don't provide enough information to go on. The exact
version of Office & OS X, what type of Mac as well as a full description of
the problem, such as: Is this a recent development? What else changed at
about the same time the problem started? Also, what steps have you taken to
resolve the issue & what was the specific result? Error message content? Are
there similar problems with other programs?

Startup issues are most commonly associated with permissions & preferences.
Have you run Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions? If not, try that first,
restart your Mac & if the problem continues post back with the additional
requested details.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Justin C]

I am having this exact problem.

I need help too.

I had this if I started Excel by opening a workbook with some bad VBA in
it. Excel itself would start fine, but starting with that workbook
always killed it. Maybe you've got a dodgy macro or some bad VBA in your
personal.xls (I don't know what it's called on a Mac, I've not been
using Excel on a Mac long enough to fully understand it). You could try
temporarily renaming that file (if you can figure out which one I'm
referring to) and then seeing if Excel starts.

IIRC, Excel will create a new Personal.xls if it cant find one.

Justin.