Thanks Dave

Advice looked god. Found and deleted the .xla file you pointed at and
searched for other ocurences: none. However, I still get the same problem. I
do have Norto Antivirus but hat was update yesterday.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again

Philip


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Coincidence with Vista:

Take a look he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307410
OFF: "Compile Error in Hidden Module" Error Message When You Start
Word or Excel

It points at PDFMaker.xla as being the culprit.

If you move/delete that addin, you should be ok.



Philip Reece-Heal wrote:

Have installed my trusty Office XP onto a new laptop running Windows
Vista.

When I open Excel I get the meassage "Compile error in hidden module:
AutoExecNew"
When I close Excel I get the message "Compile error in hidden
module:
DistMon"

As far as I can ascertain, Excel is working OK. Anyone got any ideas as
to
wha my problem is & what I can do about it?

Regards

Philip

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Dave Peterson