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Office 2000 Excel Crash/close upon open

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by aarchuleta

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I am running Office 2000 on a Win 98 machine. Nearly immediately after opening any file, the entire program just closes and dissappears. I think I have seen this problem with others. My fix so far which did not work...I went into Regedit, Hkey current user, and deleted the key for Office 2000 (9.0) Excel. But my problem remains. Will the SR1A fix this? Or how else?

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by mmdkj.family

On the hard drive where you installed excel/office find the file Personal.xls and delete it to the Recycle Bin. It is located in the Xlstart folder. If you find any other files in Xlstart folder I would delete them to the Recycle Bin. See if things work better now. The Personal.xls file and almost any xls file starts autmatically whenever Excel starts and one may have a misbehaving macro in it.

by aarchuleta

I tried this, and found no files in the described folder. I would still appreciate any help anyone might have or ideas...

by james_randy

If you are still tackling this problem, perhaps you should consider calling your local super-hero.

by conrad

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