Excel & Powerpoint Start Up Crash Workaround

[Jonathan Jacobs]

Excel & Power Point were unexpectedly quitting whenever I tried to
launch them. I made several attempts to fix the problem (see previous
post for details), but it was to no avail... nothing i did seemed to
work. I was about to try a complete system reinstall until I found a
workaround by accident...

In my case, Word X and Entourage still lauched fine. So.. if you have
the same problems with Excel and/or Powerpoint then you might want to
try this...

Launch Word X. if the Project Gallery doesn't open then click the
menu item File --> Project Gallery. In the Project Gallery, under
"Blank Documents", choose "Excel Workbook" (you may have to scroll up)
and click "OK". For me, Excel opens fine this way, but if I simply
double-click the Excel icon in the Finder it crashes. This workaround
fixed a similar problem with Powerpoint.

Hope that helps for any MS developers trying to fix this bug.

 

[Bernard Rey]

Jonathan Jacobs wrote :

Excel & Power Point were unexpectedly quitting whenever I tried to
launch them. I made several attempts to fix the problem (see previous
post for details), but it was to no avail... nothing i did seemed to
work. I was about to try a complete system reinstall until I found a
workaround by accident...

In my case, Word X and Entourage still lauched fine. So.. if you have
the same problems with Excel and/or Powerpoint then you might want to
try this...

Launch Word X. if the Project Gallery doesn't open then click the
menu item File --> Project Gallery. In the Project Gallery, under
"Blank Documents", choose "Excel Workbook" (you may have to scroll up)
and click "OK". For me, Excel opens fine this way, but if I simply
double-click the Excel icon in the Finder it crashes. This workaround
fixed a similar problem with Powerpoint.

To complete the workaround, open the Excel preferences. There in the
"General" tab, you'll find a checkbox asking to open the project gallery on
startup. Just uncheck it and things will work better.


I know it's still a workaround, but it seems to work...

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

To complete the workaround, open the Excel preferences. There in the
"General" tab, you'll find a checkbox asking to open the project gallery on
startup. Just uncheck it and things will work better.


I know it's still a workaround, but it seems to work...

The weird thing is that I had this bug in early versions of Office but
the problem was supposed to have been fixed a long time ago. Are you
sure the version you have is up to date (10.1.2/10.1.3)??



Corentin

 

[Hamodi]

I have the exact same problem. Another workaround was to double click on an
Excel or PowerPoint document, both applications will launch and work
properly. I'm seeing this problem on multiple Macs. I'm not sure when it
started happening, the last update I made was Quicktime 6.3.

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

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-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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I have the exact same problem. Another workaround was to double click on an
Excel or PowerPoint document, both applications will launch and work
properly. I'm seeing this problem on multiple Macs. I'm not sure when it
started happening, the last update I made was Quicktime 6.3.

Excel & Power Point were unexpectedly quitting whenever I tried to
launch them. I made several attempts to fix the problem (see previous
post for details), but it was to no avail... nothing i did seemed to
work. I was about to try a complete system reinstall until I found a
workaround by accident...

In my case, Word X and Entourage still lauched fine. So.. if you have
the same problems with Excel and/or Powerpoint then you might want to
try this...

Launch Word X. if the Project Gallery doesn't open then click the
menu item File --> Project Gallery. In the Project Gallery, under
"Blank Documents", choose "Excel Workbook" (you may have to scroll up)
and click "OK". For me, Excel opens fine this way, but if I simply
double-click the Excel icon in the Finder it crashes. This workaround
fixed a similar problem with Powerpoint.

Hope that helps for any MS developers trying to fix this bug.

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