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My Excel 2000 won't open
I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour
glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but still get the same thing. TJ |
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Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see if Excel will start. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | still get the same thing. | | TJ |
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It work! When I went to the last excel file I was working on and try to open
it said this file was in the wrong format. I had saved it to a disk and reloaded it and now it opens too. Is there anything I should know about changing the name to excel.abc? Thanks for your good advise on this. TJ "Jim Rech" wrote: Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see if Excel will start. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | still get the same thing. | | TJ |
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Thanks again , Jim It worked. Do I have to do anything else with changing
that file name .abc TJ "Jim Rech" wrote: Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see if Excel will start. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | still get the same thing. | | TJ |
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If I am seeing this correctly you changed the file extension. A file .extension
of .xls is used by the system to indicate that Excel should open the file. The file types are set in My Computer (explorer), Tools, Folder options, file types. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... Thanks again , Jim It worked. Do I have to do anything else with changing that file name .abc TJ "Jim Rech" wrote: Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see if Excel will start. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | still get the same thing. | | TJ |
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David
Ricjettsjt changed the Excel.xlb file to Excel.abc to build a new one because it appears the old one was corrupt. Since Excel built a new *.xlb file and Rickettsjt is happy, he(she) can just delete the Excel.abc file. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:54:45 -0400, "David McRitchie" wrote: If I am seeing this correctly you changed the file extension. A file .extension of .xls is used by the system to indicate that Excel should open the file. The file types are set in My Computer (explorer), Tools, Folder options, file types. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... Thanks again , Jim It worked. Do I have to do anything else with changing that file name .abc TJ "Jim Rech" wrote: Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see if Excel will start. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | still get the same thing. | | TJ |
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I misread, thanks for the explanation, makes sense now.
"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... David Ricjettsjt changed the Excel.xlb file to Excel.abc to build a new one because it appears the old one was corrupt. Since Excel built a new *.xlb file and Rickettsjt is happy, he(she) can just delete the Excel.abc file. |
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Changing Excel.xlb to Excel.abc was just to keep Excel from loading it when
it started up, and to give you the ability to rename it back if the XLB was not the problem. Every time you make a change to your toolbars or menubars Excel saves those 'customizations' (intentional or not) in your XLB file. For reasons that are beyond me the XLB file sometimes (too often IMO) becomes corrupted and Excel hangs starting up. The only answer I know of is to delete or rename the XLB. Of course if you had any intentional customizations they would have to be re-created. Since I've customized my toolbars quite a bit I always make a backup copy of my (good) XLB file just in case it goes bad. That way I don't have to start over from scratch. -- Jim "Rickettsjt" wrote in message ... | Thanks again , Jim It worked. Do I have to do anything else with changing | that file name .abc | | TJ | | "Jim Rech" wrote: | | Might be a corrupt toolbar file. With Excel closed go to this folder: | | C:\Documents and Settings\<user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel | | and rename the file EXCEL.XLB to something else like Excel.abc and then see | if Excel will start. | | -- | Jim | "Rickettsjt" wrote in message | ... | |I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour | | glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you | | try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but | | still get the same thing. | | | | TJ | | | |
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My Excel 2000 won't open
"Rickettsjt" wrote: I can't get me excel files to open. The program box comes up and the hour glass just sits there waiting. Then low resources error comes on when you try to ctrl, atl, delete. Any help? I've tried re-installing office but still get the same thing. TJ |
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