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Old January 26th, 2005, 04:55 PM
APT SA
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My user gets this message everytime she opens excel. She clicks OK it pops
up again, she clicks OK again and excel opens. She had installed some
program that has an excell addin. I unistalled this program and removed
addin, same thing. I have tried installing SP3 for office xp, same thing. I
tried unistalling office and reinstalling office and sp3. Same thing. It
was working fine and I am kind of stumped. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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Old January 26th, 2005, 05:55 PM
APT SA
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Using SysInternals Filemon. I found that excel was attempting to access a
blank text file in the xlstart directory. After removing this text file, I
do not get the error anymore.

"APT SA" wrote:

My user gets this message everytime she opens excel. She clicks OK it pops
up again, she clicks OK again and excel opens. She had installed some
program that has an excell addin. I unistalled this program and removed
addin, same thing. I have tried installing SP3 for office xp, same thing. I
tried unistalling office and reinstalling office and sp3. Same thing. It
was working fine and I am kind of stumped. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

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Old January 26th, 2005, 07:45 PM
Gord Dibben
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APT

The standard fixes for this problem.......

ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:55:04 -0800, APT SA APT
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My user gets this message everytime she opens excel. She clicks OK it pops
up again, she clicks OK again and excel opens. She had installed some
program that has an excell addin. I unistalled this program and removed
addin, same thing. I have tried installing SP3 for office xp, same thing. I
tried unistalling office and reinstalling office and sp3. Same thing. It
was working fine and I am kind of stumped. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.


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Old January 26th, 2005, 10:39 PM
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APT

Thanks for posting back with your fix.

Gord

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:55:02 -0800, APT SA
wrote:

Using SysInternals Filemon. I found that excel was attempting to access a
blank text file in the xlstart directory. After removing this text file, I
do not get the error anymore.

"APT SA" wrote:

My user gets this message everytime she opens excel. She clicks OK it pops
up again, she clicks OK again and excel opens. She had installed some
program that has an excell addin. I unistalled this program and removed
addin, same thing. I have tried installing SP3 for office xp, same thing. I
tried unistalling office and reinstalling office and sp3. Same thing. It
was working fine and I am kind of stumped. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.


 




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