Excel startup bug: Run-time error '76'??

[Steve Conover]

Help, please.

Yesterday, Excel started giving me error messages whenever I
start it up. I uninstalled Office 2000, reinstalled it, and I
still get the same error.

Here is what happens. MS Visual Basic displays a dialog box that
says:
Run-time error '76':
Path not found

When I hit the debug button, it highlights (in yellow) the
following line of code:
lengthOfFile = Filelen(registryValue)

What should I do to fix this annoying problem?

Steve


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[Beth Melton]

Hi Steve,

A Runtime error means there is an error in a third party macro rather
than Excel.

Try running Excel in Safe Mode. For this go to Start/Run and run the
following command:

Excel.exe /s

Note that there is a space before the forward slash.

If everything works fine in Safe Mode, then the problem could be due
to an add-in Go to Tools/Add-ins and uncheck all the add-ins. Then
start Excel without using the /s switch. If this solves the problem
then enable the add-ins one-by-one, restarting Excel each time, to
find the offending add-in.

If the problem still exists then go to Tools/Options/General and make
sure that the 'Alternate Startup file location' is blank.

If this doesn't work, move all the files out of your XLStart folder.

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[Peter M]

Can this same error and cause also apply to MS Word?

I get "76 Path not Found" when trying to launch a third party CRM app to insert Database fields into a Word template.

Thx,
Peter