excel

[Karen]

I am getting an error message when I open excel
Method
'Add' to object
'Command Bar Controls' failed

I have no file drop down menu in the top gray area and
can't do a file save as or anything else that normally
appears in that menu. Tryed to reload under fix and
didn't work - any suggestions.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Karen

Try running Excel in Safe Mode. For this go to Start/Run and run the
following command:

Excel.exe /s

Note that there is a space before the forward slash.

If everything works fine in Safe Mode, then the problem could be due
to an add-in Go to Tools/Add-ins and uncheck all the add-ins. Then
start Excel without using the /s switch. If this solves the problem
then enable the add-ins one-by-one, restarting Excel each time, to
find the offending add-in.

If the problem still exists then go to Tools/Options/General and make
sure that the 'Alternate Startup file location' is blank.

If this doesn't work, move all the files out of C:\...\Office\XLStart.
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