Hi Charles -
See the interjections below;
I'll interleave my answers to your questions this time...
It just started happening spontaneously. I can't think of any cause/
effect occurences.
Very little happens "spontaneously" on a computer. Based on your next two
points - not previously disclosed - I believe you may have hit the nail on
the head without even realizing it
... "transferring" files & apps to a
*new* system bought 2 weeks ago constitutes a pretty clear cause & effect
relationship to even my feeble old mind
If you used the Migration
Assistant to migrate Office 2004 to the new system it could very well be the
root of the problem - MA doesn't always seem to migrate applications intact,
especially the more complex apps. I have a suspicion that reinstalling
Office _may_ be necessary: See Below
Latest OS X installed on the Intel "aluminum" iMac that I bought two
weeks ago.
No... and the problem occurred after fairly extensive use of Excel
after transferring my files and apps to the new machine.
I don't think so. I mainly just use Excel, and Word occasionally (no
problems there).
I installed over the existing one. I hope you're not going to tell me
to do the whole thing again after using Remove Office. It takes a long
time!
A wise man once told me that he'd rather invest 2 hours wisely than p*ss
away 2 minutes
That goes hand-in-hand with another axiom which is
typically expressed something like: "It takes less time to do it right than
it does to do it over!".
Reinstalling Office without running Remove Office *first* falls directly
into the latter scenario. What's installed during the installation process
are the application files themselves which rarely go sour (barring HD
crashes that actually damage the disk/file structure, for example). Also,
when the installer sees that certain files are already in existence it
simply skips them rather than overwriting them and there are a number of
files that simply are not a part of the installation in the first place.
They're created when you first run the programs *unless* they are found to
already exist. If so, the app is content to use the existing file... Guess
which ones are the source of most problems.
You might try John's suggestion, especially if you don't use Entourage. That
will purge the most likely sources of the error and new ones will be created
when you launch the programs again.
Here's the disk verification results...
Verifying volume "iMac 24"
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
%)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume iMac 24 appears to be OK.
Mounting Disk
1 HFS volume checked
Volume passed verification
Thanks for trying to help. If it matters I've noticed that the problem
isn't 100% consistent. Simple worksheets seem to open fine. I even
rebuilt one of my more complex workbooks using Excel vX and it now
opens with 2004. It's a good thing that I've kept both installed or
I'd be screwed.
If there's anything at all in common about the workbooks that generate
the "Error accessing the system registry" (with Excel 2004) and those
that don't, it's that the problem cases have extensive links to other
workbooks. Does that suggest anything?
...Charles
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
