It's possible that a settings entry in your registry has somehow gotten
corrupted and it causes Excel a problem when it tries to read it.

You can make Excel re-establish its default settings with this procedu

-Make sure Excel is closed.
-From Start-Run enter "Regedit" (no quotes) and press Enter.
-Navigate to this key for Excel 97:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Ex cel\Microsoft Excel

-Rename this key by pressing F2 and changing the last part to, say,
"Microsoft Excelx"
-Close Regedit.

Start Excel and hopefully the problem will be gone.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Tom" wrote in message
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| Hi
|
| I'm working with Windows XP and Excel 97. When I enter the menu command
| "tools - options" Excel crashes immediately. I tried to solve this
problem
| with the following run-commands, but it fails:
|
| ...\EXCEL.EXE" /unregserver
| ...\EXCEL.EXE" /regserver
|
| Any ideas how to get this work?
|
| Tom
|
|