file menu open of a worksheet makes XL2000 stop responding.

[Margo Guda]

All of a sudden - I did not install, update or reinstall any msoffice
files - excel 2000 on my windows 98 se system has developed a strange
behavior. When I open xl and try to open a file from the file menu, xl
stops responding. The only thing I can do is ctrl-alt-del and end task.
If I'm lucky, I can continue working with the computer, otherwise the
system may also crash (but this is not predictable behavior).
However if I doubleclick the file from explorer or from the desktop,
everything is fine. I can work with the file, make changes, save them,
print, or whatever task I need done. But NOT opening from the file menu.

What can I do to cure excel?
Thanks in advance.

Margo Guda.

 

[Margo Guda]

The lamb is dead. I spread the blood on the insides of my computer. Now
the computer is dead, too. It must be the simulated moonlight...

Actually, I looked at the Options|Ignore other applications setting and
noticed it was not selected, so I tried that. It seems so far that the
problem has gone away.
I think Microsoft wants romance in computers. Too many people preach
that if you take away the mystery (by science and knowledge) the world
will be a less wonderful place, so they opt instead for making computers
(the ultimate in knowledge?) mysterious. It keeps the world full of
wonder (though not, maybe, wonderful).

Margo Guda.

 

[Guest]

There's too much romance in computers these days. Thats
why I keep getting viagra ads in my email.