From what I've read, Mac's don't support the Control toolbox toolbar controls.

I think I'd close excel (and any other program running) and clean up the windows
temp folder.

Windows start button|Run
%temp%

is a quick way to get there.

If that doesn't help, here are some links for further reading.

Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes at:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.htm

Kaval wrote:

I have an excel file which crashes and closes excel as soon as it is opened.
I see the worksheet appear very briefly before it all closes.

It is a file I last saved on a Mac but am trying to open on a PC with Excel
2000. It has VBA macros and I have tried disabling these on opening but get
exact same result.

I have an inkling it may be to do with a command button on the worksheet.
The file opens OK on my Mac but the command button doesn't function. COuld it
be that the command button was originally created on a PC, but is
incompatible with excel for mac, and then creates a glitch when reopened on
PC.

Any other likely reasons?

I would be grateful for any advice. Anyone with similar experience? I would
like to be able to recover the file on the PC or at least understand why it
is crashing.

Thanks, Kaval

--

Dave Peterson