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by hinode82

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I have a user, that everytime he starts up MS Excel, he gets an error message that says Microsoft Visual Basic "Compile error in hidden module: AutoExecNew", and when he closes Excel he gets another one that says Microsoft Visual Basic "Compile error in hidden module: DistMon". Can anyone tell me where this error message is coming from? We're using MS office 2003 standard. Is there something that I need to download?

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by captbilly1eye

Got this from the MS Support Knowledgebase:
http://tinyurl.com/d7fng

One user suggested:
1) search for PDFMaker.xla on your local drive including subfolders, AND before you
"start" the search indicate that you want to also search hidden files (in XP notably). The files are hidden.
2) In my case there were 4 copies of pdfmaker.xla strewn about the place and I deleted them all and Excel works fine"

Please let me know if this helps.

by hinode82

Thanks. I sent your advice to the user and that really helped.

by captbilly1eye

Glad I could help.

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by patrickj

Deleting the PDFmaker.xla...works. It removed the error message

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