Thanks Noel,

<One has to wonder what you're doing running Excel 97 on a Windows Millennium
system

I refuse to pay the price for a later version as I don't really use it that
often. My PC was bought with ME already installed and has not had any other
operating system installed. I then installed Office 97 at a later date.

I think it has got to be something I've installed as it worked fine the last
time I used it, about 6 months ago. (Just shows how much I use Excel).

I'll try installing all the latest updates as you suggested.

Cheers.



"Noel Paton" wrote:

One has to wonder what you're doing running Excel 97 on a Windows Millennium
system - and can only assume that the problem may be related to the
probability that the system you were originally supplied with was
Win98-based, (probably First edition) and that you have since upgraded to
ME......

Have you recently installed any updates from Windows Updates or from Office
Updates???

Unfortunately both Office 97 and Win ME are no longer in full support from
MS - and I can find no references to your exact error message at MS - so it
may be that you are SOL without some heavy-hitter backing.......


That said - go to Windows Updates, and make sure that you have installed ALL
the 'Critical' updates, and any others that relate to Office - then go to
the Office site (office.microsoft.com) and see what's available there.

I've copied this response to a specialist Excel newsgroup - please respond
directly to any answers you may get from there.



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"canna" wrote in message
...
I'm using Excel 97 SR1 that came with my Office 97 CD.

"Noel Paton" wrote:

....it would also be useful if you were to tell us which version of Excel
you
are using??


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"Mart" wrote in message
...
Have you tried the Knowledge Base? There were some 20 issues raised
when
simply searching for 'excel save' as keywords, maybe something there
might
help. Perhaps a good starting point would be "How to troubleshoot
errors
when you save Excel files"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;271513

Good luck

Mart


"canna" wrote in message
...
I have Office 97 running on a windows me machine. Been using the Excel
for
months on this machine with no problems.
Suddenly started receiving "excel has caused an error in excel.exe. if
you
continue to have problems please restart your computer" error out of
nowhere.
Error comes up when I try to save a file - closing the program and
losing
all
the work. Software works fine until I try to save. Have tried to save
in
multiple file formats and locations - to no avail.

I reinstalled excel from the office cd. No help. Same message.

Any ideas????

Thanks.