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File & Help only active menu items
One of our users has caused Excel 2003 to only have menu items File and Help
active all the other menu items are grayed out. We've rebooted, run detect & repair and we've searched Google but have not found anything helpful. This happens on old as well as new spreadsheets. Currently he's running Excel in safe mode (Excel.exe /s). Next I'm planning on uninstalling all of Office 2003 and stripping Office out of the registry after that. I'd rather not, any suggestions to fix the grayed out menu items? -- Dave |
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I would try a few things
1) Check there are no add-ins or workbook_open() code in the personal.xls 2) Reset the active toolbars (Right-click the toolbars and select customise, select the toolbars in the list and hit reset) 3) Check there is no protection on (I doubt this one as that wouldn't lock whole menu options) 4) Search for a hidden file with an xlb extension (*.xlb) and move it, re-start Excel and if it works delete the old one. Excel will have made a new one 5) Grill the user to see if they have loaded anything on the machine or any update? -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS www.nickhodge.co.uk "hill0821" wrote in message ... One of our users has caused Excel 2003 to only have menu items File and Help active all the other menu items are grayed out. We've rebooted, run detect & repair and we've searched Google but have not found anything helpful. This happens on old as well as new spreadsheets. Currently he's running Excel in safe mode (Excel.exe /s). Next I'm planning on uninstalling all of Office 2003 and stripping Office out of the registry after that. I'd rather not, any suggestions to fix the grayed out menu items? -- Dave |
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Nick,
I tied your 4 suggestions. 1) Searched the hard drive and did not find personal.xls. 2) Can only use Excel in safe mode. Customize is grayed out. 3) Protection is off 4) *.xlb file not fould on C:\ 5) Grilled - user is unaware of any recently installed software or hardware installs. Any other suggestions? Anyone else? thx, Dave "Nick Hodge" wrote: I would try a few things 1) Check there are no add-ins or workbook_open() code in the personal.xls 2) Reset the active toolbars (Right-click the toolbars and select customise, select the toolbars in the list and hit reset) 3) Check there is no protection on (I doubt this one as that wouldn't lock whole menu options) 4) Search for a hidden file with an xlb extension (*.xlb) and move it, re-start Excel and if it works delete the old one. Excel will have made a new one 5) Grill the user to see if they have loaded anything on the machine or any update? -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS www.nickhodge.co.uk "hill0821" wrote in message ... One of our users has caused Excel 2003 to only have menu items File and Help active all the other menu items are grayed out. We've rebooted, run detect & repair and we've searched Google but have not found anything helpful. This happens on old as well as new spreadsheets. Currently he's running Excel in safe mode (Excel.exe /s). Next I'm planning on uninstalling all of Office 2003 and stripping Office out of the registry after that. I'd rather not, any suggestions to fix the grayed out menu items? -- Dave |
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You must have an *.xlb file if you have ever opened Excel and closed it.
Make sure under My ComputerToolsFolder OptionsView you are set to "Show hidden files and folders" and unchecked "Hide extensions for know file types" Thern do the search for *.xlb Same for Personal.xls Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:43:01 -0800, hill0821 wrote: Nick, I tied your 4 suggestions. 1) Searched the hard drive and did not find personal.xls. 2) Can only use Excel in safe mode. Customize is grayed out. 3) Protection is off 4) *.xlb file not fould on C:\ 5) Grilled - user is unaware of any recently installed software or hardware installs. Any other suggestions? Anyone else? thx, Dave "Nick Hodge" wrote: I would try a few things 1) Check there are no add-ins or workbook_open() code in the personal.xls 2) Reset the active toolbars (Right-click the toolbars and select customise, select the toolbars in the list and hit reset) 3) Check there is no protection on (I doubt this one as that wouldn't lock whole menu options) 4) Search for a hidden file with an xlb extension (*.xlb) and move it, re-start Excel and if it works delete the old one. Excel will have made a new one 5) Grill the user to see if they have loaded anything on the machine or any update? -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS www.nickhodge.co.uk "hill0821" wrote in message ... One of our users has caused Excel 2003 to only have menu items File and Help active all the other menu items are grayed out. We've rebooted, run detect & repair and we've searched Google but have not found anything helpful. This happens on old as well as new spreadsheets. Currently he's running Excel in safe mode (Excel.exe /s). Next I'm planning on uninstalling all of Office 2003 and stripping Office out of the registry after that. I'd rather not, any suggestions to fix the grayed out menu items? -- Dave |
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Gord,
There is no personal.xls nor *.XLB file on his PC nor my PC. We are using Office 2003 with service pack 2 installed. The view all files is how the folders are setup. other suggestions? -- Dave "Gord Dibben" wrote: You must have an *.xlb file if you have ever opened Excel and closed it. Make sure under My ComputerToolsFolder OptionsView you are set to "Show hidden files and folders" and unchecked "Hide extensions for know file types" Thern do the search for *.xlb Same for Personal.xls Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:43:01 -0800, hill0821 wrote: Nick, I tied your 4 suggestions. 1) Searched the hard drive and did not find personal.xls. 2) Can only use Excel in safe mode. Customize is grayed out. 3) Protection is off 4) *.xlb file not fould on C:\ 5) Grilled - user is unaware of any recently installed software or hardware installs. Any other suggestions? Anyone else? thx, Dave "Nick Hodge" wrote: I would try a few things 1) Check there are no add-ins or workbook_open() code in the personal.xls 2) Reset the active toolbars (Right-click the toolbars and select customise, select the toolbars in the list and hit reset) 3) Check there is no protection on (I doubt this one as that wouldn't lock whole menu options) 4) Search for a hidden file with an xlb extension (*.xlb) and move it, re-start Excel and if it works delete the old one. Excel will have made a new one 5) Grill the user to see if they have loaded anything on the machine or any update? -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS www.nickhodge.co.uk "hill0821" wrote in message ... One of our users has caused Excel 2003 to only have menu items File and Help active all the other menu items are grayed out. We've rebooted, run detect & repair and we've searched Google but have not found anything helpful. This happens on old as well as new spreadsheets. Currently he's running Excel in safe mode (Excel.exe /s). Next I'm planning on uninstalling all of Office 2003 and stripping Office out of the registry after that. I'd rather not, any suggestions to fix the grayed out menu items? -- Dave |
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You would not necessarily have a Personal.xls if you have never recorded a macro
and used Personal Macro Workbook for storage of that macro. You will have an *.xlb file. Open Excel and make some small change to a menu or Toolbar. Close Excel then go looking for *.xlb file. Generally found in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel If on a network you may have to go looking somewhere else. Gord On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:09:00 -0800, hill0821 wrote: Gord, There is no personal.xls nor *.XLB file on his PC nor my PC. We are using Office 2003 with service pack 2 installed. The view all files is how the folders are setup. other suggestions? |
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Gord,
Thanks for your responses. I did a search and neither file was located. Problem solved. I uninstalled excel and reinstalled excel. Then all the menu items were active and available. I had the user reboot and we tried excel again. All the menu items were still available and active. -- Dave "Gord Dibben" wrote: You would not necessarily have a Personal.xls if you have never recorded a macro and used Personal Macro Workbook for storage of that macro. You will have an *.xlb file. Open Excel and make some small change to a menu or Toolbar. Close Excel then go looking for *.xlb file. Generally found in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel If on a network you may have to go looking somewhere else. Gord On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:09:00 -0800, hill0821 wrote: Gord, There is no personal.xls nor *.XLB file on his PC nor my PC. We are using Office 2003 with service pack 2 installed. The view all files is how the folders are setup. other suggestions? |
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Very strange having no *.xlb file but glad you're sorted.
Now that you've re-installed Excel have you looked for the *.xlb file? Gord On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:38:00 -0800, hill0821 wrote: Gord, Thanks for your responses. I did a search and neither file was located. Problem solved. I uninstalled excel and reinstalled excel. Then all the menu items were active and available. I had the user reboot and we tried excel again. All the menu items were still available and active. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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