Excel won't open "program has performed illegal operation"

[Dave Wilko]

I have the following problem with Excel loaded from a
genuine Office 2000 Professional CD (upgrade). I am
running Windows 98 SE, also strictly genuine. It all ran
well until a while ago I had to reformat my computer and
reload all the programs. Since then I always receive the
same message (see below). I have uninstalled Office and
reloaded several times, including uninstalling any updates
I downloaded (that I could identify). The problem is only
in Excel, the other Office programs run OK.
Any ideas please?

Dave

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

If the problem persists, contact the program
vendor."


Details

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 017f:30026d69.
Registers:
EAX=0062e9a0 CS=017f EIP=30026d69 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0062e92c EBP=0062e998
ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=00000000 FS=0d4f
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=00ad3d00 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 31 e8 0e 00 00 00 50 ff 35 58 80 68 30 ff 56
Stack dump:
00000012 00000000 00000000 0062e9a0 00000000 30026d40
00000012 0062e9a0 00000000 30026cae 00000012 0062e9a0
00000002 00ad0010 00ad53e0 04001097

 

[Jonica Kennedy]

Hi Dave

I am having a similar problem as you but mine occured
after i did the office updates?? How did you do with
yours??

Jonica