Microsoft Visual Basic

[ben]

I am using Microsoft Office X 2002 on a Powerbook G4, with os 10.2.8,
and just recently, my Word will unexpectedly quit when it loads
Microsoft Visual Basic, and the Powerpoint comes up with a message
saying that it could not open the Visual Basic for Applications. Any
ideas how to fix this?

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

Did you install any new fonts? Sometimes a bad font will cause problems.

If nothing is new then first thing I would do is run Disk Utility First Aid
and repair permissions.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I am using Microsoft Office X 2002 on a Powerbook G4, with os 10.2.8,
and just recently, my Word will unexpectedly quit when it loads
Microsoft Visual Basic, and the Powerpoint comes up with a message
saying that it could not open the Visual Basic for Applications. Any
ideas how to fix this?

Did you partition your drive ??? Is Office on the boot volume ???
If yes, try deleting the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Carbon
Registration Database
Launching Word, Excel or PPT should allow this file to be re-created
fresh and it *should* fix the problem.
(~/ stand for your user folder)


Corentin

 

[Larry Paulausky]

Corentin -

I have OS 10.2.8 and Office.mac SR1 on a G4 desktop.

I had an almost identical problem; out of the blue, for no good reason I
can think of (i.e. unrelated to installation of anything new), every time I
launched Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, I would get a dialog box that said
something like "Microsoft Visual Basic Error - Unable to Load Visual
Basic". I could click OK and the program behaved normally, but the
behavior annoyed me (and made me wonder if I weren't headed for
more serious problems down the road).

My drive is partitioned and Office is on the boot volume, but it has
always been so, since long before this issue arose.

I deleted the file you suggested, and that cured the problem. Thanks
so much for sharing that bit of arcana!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Corentin -

I have OS 10.2.8 and Office.mac SR1 on a G4 desktop.

I had an almost identical problem; out of the blue, for no good reason I
can think of (i.e. unrelated to installation of anything new), every time I
launched Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, I would get a dialog box that said
something like "Microsoft Visual Basic Error - Unable to Load Visual
Basic". I could click OK and the program behaved normally, but the
behavior annoyed me (and made me wonder if I weren't headed for
more serious problems down the road).

My drive is partitioned and Office is on the boot volume, but it has
always been so, since long before this issue arose.

Usually, what matters is the location of the user folder more than
Office itself. When it is on another volume, it leads to a systematic
corruption of the CRD. If the CDR gets corrupted in a "normal" install,
it lead to the same problems, but the problems don;t come back every
single time you launch an Office App ;-)))

I deleted the file you suggested, and that cured the problem. Thanks
so much for sharing that bit of arcana!

I'm really glad it solved your prblem (and thanks for sharing the
information with us).


Corentin