Excel: Illegal Error Mess: when i open a spreadsheet

[Jayme]

Hello

When i open an exel spreadsheet i get an illegal error
message and the spreadsheet does not appear except a white
background and the following windows based error message:

Excel
This program has performed an illegal operation, contact
the vendor is this happens again:
EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module MSO9.DLL at 0167:308d0b99.
Registers:
EAX=00629c74 CS=0167 EIP=308d0b99 EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=00628684 EBP=0062868c
ECX=00000002 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=593f
EDX=00000008 ES=016f EDI=00629c74 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 a5 8b ca 83 e1 03 f3 a4 5f 5e 5d c3 8b 4d 10
Stack dump:
ffffffd8 00000000 00629db4 30251402 00629c74 00000000
00000008 00000000 0062d6d8 0062a480 83d41f74 308e0ac8
0062e6e8 00000f00 00000008 0000000b

why? cheers.

 

[AlfD]

HI!

I don't pretend to understand the detailed error message.
But my experience of "illegal" operations came from two things.

The first arose because a This Workbook On_Open macro tried to inser
data or do things to locked cells, where I hadn't made provision fo
that to happen. Are you using macros?

The other is still a complete mystery except that it went away when
removed the offending page (1 of about 40 - needle in a haystack) an
re-wrote it. Somehow it had become corrupted, I guess, possibly durin
translation from Excel 2000 to Excel97, since the 2000 version didn'
have the problem and the 97 did.

Al

 

[Guest]

Alf, i am not using any macros at all it became corrupt
on my palm pilot one day maybe due to insufficent storage
on the palm pilot. i dont really understand your anwser
what can be done to resolve this issue and able me to open
my file?
thanks

 

[AlfD]

Sorry: I'm not familiar with palm pilot.

Al