My excel 97 (running XP) is closing all the time - what is worong

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Alison Roberts

I am running Xp, with office 97, Excel worked fine until this morning, now is
reports an error and clsoes with 20 secs of opening - bad news as I have a
report to get in by 9.00 am Mon.

Please, please help.

I'll have dinner with the solution provider - save my life
 
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Alison roberts

Earl,

The thing just closes when I change a format, like a margin.

I am tearing out my hair.

Need for help - I'll buy you all the Italian you can eat if you can solve
this for me.

It may be a memory thing, but I have loads.

Help, help, hep, desparate seeking help, Ali
 
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Earl Kiosterud

Alison,

A margin? In Page Setup? This is Excel, isn't it -- not Word?

Did you try the stuff at the website I mentioned? All quickies.

Sometimes uninstalling the program and reinstalling it is the
recommendation. As far as I know, it has never fixed a problem. But it
doesn't take long, and just might do so.

Does it fail on a particular workbook, or any? If the former, the workbook
may be damaged. You can send it to me, I'll open, and possibly repair it
with Excel 2002, and send it back. Or copy everything to a new one, if it
will manage to stay open. I've had to do that before.

Since you're in a time jam, if you want, you can call me at seven five seven
four nine five two five seven eight. East coast, until midnight. We can
get this going.

Then we'll talk about Italian! :) I wonder what the airfare is gonna run
me.
 
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Dave Peterson

If it's crashing when you're changing a margin, maybe you could try changing
printers. (Or load a fresh version of the printer driver that you currently
use.)
 
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Alison roberts

Hi,

It is 1 am here and I have mangaed to solve it.

The spredsheet was very large, so I halved it and it seems ok - so I will
meet my deadline.

Thanks for you help - call me if you are in London and we can get that
Italian, although I prefer French cuisine at one of the posh hotels.

Still thanks again I am off to bed now - very tired.

Nice to meet you on line.

My email address is "[email protected]"
 
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