First, just guesses.

On the boss's pc:
close excel
clean up windows temp folder
Try opening the troublesome workbook.

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Still broken?
close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

File|open (the workbook)

If that works, then visit Chip Pearson's site to see if you can isolate the
problem.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

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Still broken?
Maybe opening the workbook in another program and saving it there would help
"clean" it up.

Lots of people have had good luck with OpenOffice--when excel couldn't open the
workbook.
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD



Aidan wrote:

Hello

My boss is running Office xp with SP3, the same as me, but can't open an
excel sheet with a chart in, even though I can. Excel just crashes and send a
message to Microsoft.

please help

Aidan

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Dave Peterson