Excel with game is stuck in a loop

[jamesdouglasstrang]

I'm at wk and we found a Excel file that contains a golf game in it.
Mine works fine, but some associates of mine will open the file and the
game just runs off in an infinite loop. I'm hoping some one here can
help. Thanks, James

 

[John Coleman]

It's not like you gave a lot of information to go on. Are you talking
about different versions of Excel (say 2000 vs 2003)?

Just guessing - a kludge that sometimes works is to sprinkle some
DoEvents statements in the offending loops. YMMV

HTH

-John Coleman

 

[jamesdouglasstrang]

It's not like you gave a lot of information to go on. Are you talking
about different versions of Excel (say 2000 vs 2003)?

Just guessing - a kludge that sometimes works is to sprinkle some
DoEvents statements in the offending loops. YMMV

HTH

-John Coleman

Sorry, For minor info. I believe it's 2000. I did not create this file
but just received it through an E-mail. I open it and it works fine,
but a few guys that received it, and open it, then it starts it's
looping thing. I think that it's something to something that messes
with Excel, like there computer has some issue, the file works fine for
me and everyone else I know that plays it. I was hoping someone may
have seen this before and new a fix. or maybe I need to see able a
patch for this. But to see the source or the code to this I don't know
how. I an proficient w/ manually working Excel, the code witting is a
poor average on my part.

 

[jamesdouglasstrang]

It's not like you gave a lot of information to go on. Are you talking
about different versions of Excel (say 2000 vs 2003)?

Just guessing - a kludge that sometimes works is to sprinkle some
DoEvents statements in the offending loops. YMMV

HTH

-John Coleman

Sorry, For minor info. I believe it's 2000. I did not create this file
but just received it through an E-mail. I open it and it works fine,
but a few guys that received it, and open it, then it starts it's
looping thing. I think that it's something to something that messes
with Excel, like there computer has some issue, the file works fine for
me and everyone else I know that plays it. I was hoping someone may
have seen this before and new a fix. or maybe I need to see able a
patch for this. But to see the source or the code to this I don't know
how. I an proficient w/ manually working Excel, the code witting is a
poor average on my part.

 

[John Coleman]

Alt+F11 brings up the VBA editor - but it's probably not worth the
effort to learn some VBA just to (maybe) debug a game. Assuming this is
a popular game, maybe your best bet is to find a VBA programmer who is
familar with the game. Perhaps you can repost with a different title.
For example, I did find a fairly large number of google hits for an
Exel app called "Golf Tracker." If this is your game then maybe you can
post, say both here and in microsoft.public.excel.misc something along
the lines of : Problems with "Golf Tracker"
You might get lucky.

A hint of paranoia: VBA can do some pretty sneaky things in the hands
of a demented programmer. Make sure you have reasons to trust the file
before allowing macros to run.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

-John Coleman

 

[Gary Keramidas]

make sure the analysis toolpak is loaded