Excel crashing randomly

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Adam

So quick update...

I guess Excel has been storing recovered versions of the document so that I can recover my saved data after the crash... The problem is that the workbook itself seems to be crashing excel. So now, opening excel automatically opens the bad workbook which crashes excel... Any way out? It's now completely unusable.
 
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Adam

Ah, got it. Just remove the original file to another location. That did it. Taking bets on how long it will take before I just give up.
 
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Alan124

I wonder if you can copy all the information in the cells open a new
document the paste information in new document and save.

BTW: Pleas don't use all caps that's equivalent to shouting at the top
of your lungs and that will never get you anywhere.




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Hi,

Does the problem cause corruption of your excel file? If so, I think
you can try a popular Excel file recovery tool called Advanced Excel
Repair to repair your Excel file. It is a powerful tool to repair
corrupt or damaged Excel files.

Detailed information about Advanced Excel Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aer/

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/aer.exe

Maybe the information will help.

Alan
 
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Phillip Jones

Alen, the link you specify is a PC only link it only orks on Windows
only . This is a Mac newsgroup.
Hi,

Does the problem cause corruption of your excel file? If so, I think
you can try a popular Excel file recovery tool called Advanced Excel
Repair to repair your Excel file. It is a powerful tool to repair
corrupt or damaged Excel files.

Detailed information about Advanced Excel Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aer/

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/aer.exe

Maybe the information will help.

Alan

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Bret

I also get constant crashes. It happens for me when I attempt to maximize the workbook window. It is very frustrating since I work in excel on a regular basis and bought Office so I wouldn't have to go into Fusion all day.
 
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tonywayne

Pat,

I'm experiencing a different kind of crash situation than any i've
seen in the post thus far...

I have a file that was created in Excel 2004 with 3 worksheets. One
of the worksheets has 92 lines of data (the spreadsheet is a file I
use to log sales & revenue information on a daily basis, before it is
inputted in the accounting system). So the data is text, dates, and
numbers.

For some reason, there is a small area of cells that, when a number is
entered, causes Excel to crash. In the original file, it was the
group of cells at E85:G89. The only way I could enter new lines of
data was to insert blank rows above row 81.

Additionally, I had formulas at the bottom of each column, in row 92,
that summed the column. There was then a formula in cell L92 that
summed across that row of totals. There was a group of cells at
I81:J91 that, when numbers were entered, were properly totaled at the
bottom of the column, but the formula in cell L92 was unaffected.

I recreated the file from scratch after closing Excel and restarting
(just to be safe), never opening the old file and entering data from a
printout I'd made of the old workbook. When I reached the same area
in this new file, I get the same errors.

Have you EVER heard of this error? It ONLY happens in this one
particular sheet in this one particular workbook. There are no macros
or pivot tables. There are links from the "bad" worksheet to another
worksheet within the workbook, but no links in the workbook that go to
any other file (though there are links in another file to this
particular workbook; that workbook has had no issues).

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Tony
 
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Pat McMillan

Wow. That is a weird problem! I have not heard of a problem like this
before. Here are a few questions:

1. Are you opening the file in 2008 when it crashes, or in 2004?
2. Can you copy the crash log from the "Microsoft Error Reporting" window
and email that to me?
3. Is it possible to send me a file with this problem? Perhaps by changing
all text and/or numbers in the workbook so the data is meaningless? If so,
please send to (e-mail address removed).

Thanks,

Pat
 
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owen shell

I am also experiencing random crashing of Excel, but I do not even cut and paste.
I will be entering data then all of a sudden it will just close down losing the data.

I am also experiencing the same thing. I am typing data in an Excel Spreadsheet and in a couple of minutes the message appears stating that an error has occurred and it must shut down. I asked for an error report but it means nothing to me.
After having this happen a couple of times, I was able to save a few entires because anticipating this would happen, I closed the program after a few entries. This is not a very efficient way to have to work.
What remedy is there for this problem?
 
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PeterFV

I have to add that having downloaded the latest Excel updates (12.0.1) the problem has gone away.

Maybe you were already using the updates, and couldn't reproduce it for that reason.
 
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JKALTD

I'm having similar problems, although I've been just copying within the Excel workbook and between workbooks. It's also happened with Move/Copy the sheet from one workbook to the other. I'm wondering if its related to Leopard though. I'm having more crashes with my programs in general with Leopard.

Jill
 
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Dennis Davidson

I have experienced several random crashes when running a VBA macro in my Excel 2004 for Mac. I thought it might be caused by the fact that my Parallels program was active so I've adopted the practice of shutting down Parallels when running this macro (a run takes about 2.5 hrs. so a crash is not a trivial event). However my latest Excel 2004 crash is a new kind of beast. On this occasion Parallels was not running and this time something in the workbook seems to have been corrupted so that when I try to open the perpetrating workbook I get spontaneously crashed after my 'ignore links' command (ie., I can't open the file without crashing). Is there a routine fix for this situation?
 
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Bob Greenblatt

I have experienced several random crashes when running a VBA macro in my Excel
2004 for Mac. I thought it might be caused by the fact that my Parallels
program was active so I've adopted the practice of shutting down Parallels
when running this macro (a run takes about 2.5 hrs. so a crash is not a
trivial event). However my latest Excel 2004 crash is a new kind of beast. On
this occasion Parallels was not running and this time something in the
workbook seems to have been corrupted so that when I try to open the
perpetrating workbook I get spontaneously crashed after my 'ignore links'
command (ie., I can't open the file without crashing). Is there a routine fix
for this situation?
Sounds like the workbook is corrupted. A macro that runs for 2.5 hours is
hardly routine. Without knowing any more about the workbook, what it is
linked to and what the macro is doing it is impossible to suggest anything
other than reverting to a backup and trying again.
 
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J COMPTON

I have the latest version of Excel (2008) running on 4 different machines all running 10.5 with all the latest updates- what's happening is the program will crash (on all the machines at different times) haven't narrowed down what's causing the crash, but I've noticed if I have a file open, and I copy something to paste into another program- this will work one time. when I go back into Excel to copy a second field, the program will crash. I'm also finding other key commands are causing crashes- but it's not consistent.
Does anyone know of a fix? there's no updates from MS on the new office suite yet..

Very dissapointing- I would have thought MS would have spent more time testing the software...

suggestions.... anyone....

I have been experiencing a crash about every 5 or 6 keystrokes while I am simply trying to input data into fields, using the auto-complete function. This renders the software pretty well useless. Any suggestions?
 
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bhorv67

Have you installed the latest update? (SP1) most of these issues have been resolved in this update. You can get it from running 'check for updates' in any of the program's help menus. Once you install the update, you should be running version 12.1.0
 

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