I recently downloaded a third party Open Office file converter from Microsoft
Office. I removed the converter and now everytime I open Excell it askes for
the converter program file. While it's easy to get rid of the request for
file, it is a nusance. Any thoughts how to get rid of this?

Is the converter an Add-In ?
If so, you should be able to "de"-select it from your add-in menu

And if it's not fixed by unchecking it from the tools|addins list (xl2003
menus), maybe you could share the message you see.

Maybe you're seeing a prompt to update links to a non-existing workbook file????

Bruce H wrote:

I recently downloaded a third party Open Office file converter from Microsoft
Office. I removed the converter and now everytime I open Excell it askes for
the converter program file. While it's easy to get rid of the request for
file, it is a nusance. Any thoughts how to get rid of this?

--

Dave Peterson

It may be a COM Add-In, and thus won't show up on the standard Add-Ins
list. Run the following code:


Sub ShowCAIs()
Dim CAI As Office.COMAddIn
Dim Res As VbMsgBoxResult
For Each CAI In Application.COMAddIns
With CAI
If CAI.Connect = True Then
Res = MsgBox("Add-In: " & CAI.Description & vbCrLf & _
"ProgID: " & CAI.progID & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"Do you want to disconnect this add-in?", _
vbYesNoCancel, "COM Add-Ins")
Select Case Res
Case vbYes
CAI.Connect = False
Case vbNo
' do nothing
Case vbCancel
Exit Sub
End Select
End If
End With
Next CAI
End Sub

This will list all the COM add-ins that are presently loaded and allow
you to disconnect the add-in.

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2009
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email on web site)


On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:30:01 -0800, Bruce H
wrote:

I recently downloaded a third party Open Office file converter from Microsoft
Office. I removed the converter and now everytime I open Excell it askes for
the converter program file. While it's easy to get rid of the request for
file, it is a nusance. Any thoughts how to get rid of this?