how can I get my excell to stop opening up looking like it is in MS-DOS mode.
I get an error message that wants to send the info to microsoft, when it hit
yes send or no don't send it then shuts down.

Hi
what exact error message do you get and does this happen all the time for
all files?

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

osborne4 wrote:
how can I get my excell to stop opening up looking like it is in
MS-DOS mode. I get an error message that wants to send the info to
microsoft, when it hit yes send or no don't send it then shuts down.

Sounds like you're having startup problems. This article may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;280504
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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"osborne4" wrote in message
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| how can I get my excell to stop opening up looking like it is in MS-DOS
mode.
| I get an error message that wants to send the info to microsoft, when it
hit
| yes send or no don't send it then shuts down.

More for your reading...

Chip Pearson has a bunch of techniques that deal with start up errors at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

Maybe something in there will help.

osborne4 wrote:

how can I get my excell to stop opening up looking like it is in MS-DOS mode.
I get an error message that wants to send the info to microsoft, when it hit
yes send or no don't send it then shuts down.

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Dave Peterson