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Frank Kabel
 
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Hi
without looking at your workbook this sounds for me like a corrupted Excel
file. So my suggestion would be:
- in Excel 2000 create a new workbook
- copy all sheets from your existing workbook to this new workbook
- copy all modules from the old one to this new one
- save this new workbook

Try again with this new version

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Richard wrote:
H E L P

I'am at a lost - Here is the situation. For a year now, I've been
developping an Excel 2000 workbook. All has been well until a month
ago, when I hit the nasty "Too many different cell Formats" error.
This was accompanied by serveral Excel 2000 crashes as I tried to
reduce the number of Formats used in the Sheet.

I was finally able to reduce the number of formats, and I've continued
development of the workbook - BUT seems that now, Excel 2003 fails to
open the Workbook - a problem which is not present in Excel 2000.
Here is all I know of about this :

- Excel 2000 has NO problem with the Workbook.
- Excel 2003 can load the workbook ONCE, but if you Save & Reload in
Excel 2003 - BOOM.
- The workbook does NOT use ANY macros
- The workbook does NOT use User Defined Functions
- The Workbook does NOT use any Add-Ins
- The workbook uses only simple functions, from vlookup to trunc.
Nothing fancy.
- The workbook has alot of Formatting - which is lost when
'repairing' the workbook.
- When double-clicking on the Workbook to open it (using Excel 2003),
the bottom says "Opening .. (filename)" then there is no progression
and "Microsoft Office Excel has encountered a problem and needs to
close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" (Instead of being sorry,
it would be MUCH MORE useful if they could tell me WHY the <CENSURED
it failed. - I have tried "ExcelFIX Pro Demo v4.20" to see what
happends. No errors are detected.
- I have tried "Advanced Excel Repair" and It does'nt help
- IF i delete one worksheet in Excel 2000, save - then I can reload
in Excel 2003. BUT if i save from Excel 2003, the next time I reload
- BOOM - If I try saving (from Excel 2000) in Excel 97 format, then
Excel 2000 reports: "A Formula in Cell (Name:tSel_WeaponFocus) could
not be converted because it contains a function that is not available
in the file format to which you are saving. If you continue the save,
the Formula and result will be saved, but the function itself will be
converted to an error value." - First of all, "tSel_WeaponFocus" is a
3 cell table which uses a list for the input (as Data Validation) -
and worst (or best ?!) of all, is that when I reload back in Excel
2000 the resulting Excel 97 file, that section works correctly as if
there never was any reported error. Doh.
Note that "tSel_WeaponFocus" is the LAST named cell I got... (does
this means something ?)
- In both Excel 2000 and 2003, I tried selecting all worksheets and
copying them to a new workbook - no luck there.
- Here is another weird thing: Sometimes, when starting excel in Safe
Mode, the workbook will load correctly - I've also noticed that using
FILE-LOAD instead of double clicking will allow the workbook to load
normally - but I can't figure out any pattern.

Now, I'am already aware I could start from a previous (working) olded
version, but that would set me back at least ONE MONTH of work. Is
there ANYTHING I can do that would allow Excel 2003 to be able to
STOP crashing while opening a workbook created in Excel 2000 ?!

You're welcome to check my Workbook he (note that you might need
to SAVE from excel 2003 to see it fail the next time you load it):
http://step.polymtl.ca/~ritz/charshe...et_-_v6.43.zip

Thanks
Richard