Excel 2003 crashes when exiting application

[JoeF]

I posted the below msg. on 7/16/07. I have yet to find an answer.
Apparently, I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. See the threads
on the original msg. Any help would be appreciated.

"Recently I started getting the following error msg: "MS Office Excel has
encountered a problem and needs to close..." after I close the spreadsheet
and exit the application. Excel is version 11 Build 8134 and part of Office
Professional 2003. Any help will be appreciated."

Thanks.

 

[Simon2]

I have a very similar problem with Excel 2007, I posted back in July and
didnt get a reply, its a very annoying problem.

Simon

 

[Simon Murphy]

Check Tool>>Add-ins and make sure no add-ins are being loaded.
Also check Help>>about>>disabled items to see if Excel has prevented
something loading right
This sort of thing often happens is you have some flaky add-in installed.
Also did you chang anything recently?
You might want to make usre you don't have any VBA add-ins installed too.
If this fixes the crash then add the add-ins back one by one till you work
out which one causes the crash.

cheers
Simon
Blog: www.smurfonspreadsheets.net

 

[JoeF]

Thx. I checked both items - Add-ins and Disabled - and they appear to be
fine.
I haven't changed anything.

Here's the error signature info if it helps:
AppName: excel.exe AppVer: 11.0.8146.0 AppStamp:46a45966
ModName: mso.dll ModVer: 11.0.8132.0 ModStamp:45fc0843
fDebug: 0 Offset: 0003ece4

Joe

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi JoeF,

Here's the error signature info if it helps:
AppName: excel.exe AppVer: 11.0.8146.0 AppStamp:46a45966
ModName: mso.dll ModVer: 11.0.8132.0 ModStamp:45fc0843
fDebug: 0 Offset: 0003ece4

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Jan Karel Pieterse
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[JoeF]

Jan, thanks for the tips. Problem solved! )
It was the pdfmaker Add-in in the XLSTART folder.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi JoeF,

It was the pdfmaker Add-in in the XLSTART folder.

Great you solved it, thanks for letting us know.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP
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Member of:
Professional Office Developer Association
www.proofficedev.com