When starting excel"File not loaded completely" error message pops up

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jerwilhelm

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I cannot open excel. I get the message "File not loaded completely" and I have to force quit excel - I cannot open it or use it. Any ideas?
 
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John McGhie

I would say you got a bad load when you installed (did you "migrate" from a
different OS? That would do it...) or you may have a hard disk error.

Run the Remove Office tool (which is in your Office 2008 folder under
additional tools) then re-install. If you don't "Remove" first, the
reinstall will do nothing because the file you want to replace is already
there, and an install won't overwrite an existing file.

You MUST re-apply the updates to Office 2008 because you just blew them away
with your reinstall.

If that doesn't fix it, I need much more detail: how did you get into this
situation? Is this one excel file or any excel file? Etc.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I cannot open excel. I get the message "File not loaded completely" and I
have to force quit excel - I cannot open it or use it. Any ideas?

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jerwilhelm

Thanks, I will try that and let you know how things work out. I greatly appreciate it.

JW
 
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jerwilhelm

John

So I figured out the problem. In the Excel Preferences menu under General there is an option to have Excel open all files in a certain location - this was defaulting to my desktop for some reason. It happens that I had several PDFs saved there and Excel was trying to open them. As soon as I deleted the desktop location and left that option blank everything works fine. Not sure why it defaulted to my desktop - but the problem is solved. I appreciate the help.

Thanks,

JW
 

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