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Excel won't start (Office 2k and Vista)
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I have installed Office 2000 onto my Vista machine. This morning everything was working fine. Now, however, when I try to start Excel I get the Excel splash screen and the a Vista error saying 'Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working. A problem caused the problem to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.' The other programs in Office work OK. Is there a 'safe' mode for starting Excel that might help me work out what the problem is? I've uninstalled and reinstalled - but it's made no difference. Thanks. Andy. |
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If holding down the CTRL key when starting Excel doesn't work, use Start
Run, Excel.exe /safe Andy wrote: Hi I have installed Office 2000 onto my Vista machine. This morning everything was working fine. Now, however, when I try to start Excel I get the Excel splash screen and the a Vista error saying 'Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working. A problem caused the problem to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.' The other programs in Office work OK. Is there a 'safe' mode for starting Excel that might help me work out what the problem is? I've uninstalled and reinstalled - but it's made no difference. Thanks. Andy. |
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Hi Andy,
Try reregistering excel. Close Excel and Windows Start Button|Run excel /unregserver then Windows Start Button|Run excel /regserver The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to excel's factory defaults. click yes below, if it helps "Andy" wrote: Hi I have installed Office 2000 onto my Vista machine. This morning everything was working fine. Now, however, when I try to start Excel I get the Excel splash screen and the a Vista error saying 'Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working. A problem caused the problem to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.' The other programs in Office work OK. Is there a 'safe' mode for starting Excel that might help me work out what the problem is? I've uninstalled and reinstalled - but it's made no difference. Thanks. Andy. |
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Hi Bob
Thanks for your reply. The CTRL option didn't work but the /safe option did. It opened - hoorah! I ran Detect and Repair but it still won't open without the safe switch. Do you have any other suggestions? Andy. On Sep 2, 4:51*pm, Bob I wrote: If holding down the CTRL key when starting Excel doesn't work, use Start Run, Excel.exe /safe Andy wrote: Hi I have installed Office 2000 onto my Vista machine. This morning everything was working fine. Now, however, when I try to start Excel I get the Excel splash screen and the a Vista error saying 'Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working. A problem caused the problem to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.' The other programs in Office work OK. Is there a 'safe' mode for starting Excel that might help me work out what the problem is? I've uninstalled and reinstalled - but it's made no difference. Thanks. Andy. |
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Excel won't start (Office 2k and Vista)
Sorry, I haven't any experience with Office on Vista. Only Office on XP
and before. I do know that Office 2000 wasn't tested for compatibility on Vista and has past end of life support from Microsoft, so here is hoping that one of the other folks in this group have some ideas for you. Andy wrote: Hi Bob Thanks for your reply. The CTRL option didn't work but the /safe option did. It opened - hoorah! I ran Detect and Repair but it still won't open without the safe switch. Do you have any other suggestions? Andy. On Sep 2, 4:51 pm, Bob I wrote: If holding down the CTRL key when starting Excel doesn't work, use Start Run, Excel.exe /safe Andy wrote: Hi I have installed Office 2000 onto my Vista machine. This morning everything was working fine. Now, however, when I try to start Excel I get the Excel splash screen and the a Vista error saying 'Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working. A problem caused the problem to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.' The other programs in Office work OK. Is there a 'safe' mode for starting Excel that might help me work out what the problem is? I've uninstalled and reinstalled - but it's made no difference. Thanks. Andy. |
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