Excel getting closed giving an error message that some illegal operations occure

[mkkishore]

I am not able to open an excel file created by me. I
created some macros in this book and later deleted all the
macros. When I attempt to open the work book it says the
following message:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will
be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 017f:3009f643.
Registers:
EAX=00002ffd CS=017f EIP=3009f643 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=0062ae52 SS=0187 ESP=006292e4 EBP=0062935c
ECX=fc00001a DS=0187 ESI=0221c248 FS=408f
EDX=0207000c ES=0187 EDI=025346e8 GS=3d76
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 44 c2 06 83 e0 07 3c 06 0f 84 b4 d0 1c 00 8b
Stack dump:
00000fff 00000000 0062ae52 0062935c 0062ae52 00000fff
00000000 006292d8 3009f560 01d51fa8 00000000 0062951c
00629568 0000007c 826f63bc 00000101

Kindly guide me to solve this problem. This file is very
important to me. Amagingly on some systems it works after
some repeated attempts.

Regarads,

Krishna Kishore M.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Can you open the file in safe mode?

close excel
windows start button
excel /safe
File|open...

If yes, then maybe it's not this file. Sometimes xl's toolbar file gets
corrupted and causes problems with starting up excel.

Search for *.xlb and rename them all to *.xlbOLD.

try it out. If it didn't help, rename them back to *.xlb.

(If it did, then recreate any customizations later and be happy!)

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If it is the workbook, it sounds like it might be corrupted.

You might be able to recover more by using another program--both xl2002 and
OpenOffice have better reputations for opening files that earlier versions of
excel couldn't.

(http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD)

If the file is really important, there are commercial recovery services. I've
never used it, but you might want to check into:
http://www.officerecovery.com