someone just described the following problem to me. I'm wondering if anyone
has seen this before and knows how to fix?

An excel (not sure which version) file which uses some VBA code was running
happily on a windows98 machine. The machine was upgraded from windows98 to
windows2000. Now the file gets an error about not being able to find one of
those library files referenced? not sure wich one, as I said the problem was
described to me so I can't look again or get more details. When looking at
the references she said it displayed it was looking for it under
c:\windows\system32\.. There is no 'windows' directory in windows2000, its
c:\winnt\system32 by default. She said she created a c:\windows\system32
directory and copied the file it was looking for there but that did not
help. The error referenced the Trim() function... so its the library that
that is from.

any ideas?

After you experience the error

go into the VBE

make this workbook the active project before you do that (not
activeworkbook in excel, but the active project in the vBE)

Then from the menu select Tools = References

in tools=references you should see at least on reference shown as MISSING

unselect it if not needed or click on it and use the browse button to find
it in win 2000 (go to the Winnt hierarchy - don't go to the copy she made).

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy





"djc" wrote in message
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someone just described the following problem to me. I'm wondering if
anyone
has seen this before and knows how to fix?

An excel (not sure which version) file which uses some VBA code was
running
happily on a windows98 machine. The machine was upgraded from windows98 to
windows2000. Now the file gets an error about not being able to find one
of
those library files referenced? not sure wich one, as I said the problem
was
described to me so I can't look again or get more details. When looking at
the references she said it displayed it was looking for it under
c:\windows\system32\.. There is no 'windows' directory in windows2000, its
c:\winnt\system32 by default. She said she created a c:\windows\system32
directory and copied the file it was looking for there but that did not
help. The error referenced the Trim() function... so its the library that
that is from.

any ideas?