If you open excel in safe mode, does it happen?

close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

This stops excel from loading a lot of stuff.

If safe mode didn't help, then I think I'd try Help|Detect and repair (although
I would guess that reinstalling would have the same effect).

If safe mode did help...

One of the things that excel does when it's closing is update the toolbar file
(where customizations are kept).

This toolbar file can get corrupted and cause trouble (not sure if yours is
caused by this, though).

You could try this:
close excel
windows start button|search
look for *.xlb
rename all the files you find to *.xlbOLD.

The start excel normally and close it up. If excel still crashes, then the
toolbar file wasn't the trouble. Rename all the *.xlbOLD files back to *.xlb.

If it did help, then delete all those *.xlbOLD files. You will have to re-do
all your customizations, though.



Liz wrote:

Yes, it seems to happen with all workbooks

"Fredrik Wahlgren" wrote:


"Liz" wrote in message
...
When I try to close an excel spread sheet I get an illegal operation
warning.
When I click on details it says that excel performed an illegal operation
in
VBE6.DLL. I uninstalled and reinstalled Office Standard 2000, but get the
same result.

Dos this happen to any workbook that you try to close?
/Fredrik




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Dave Peterson