Re: excel 2000 error when opening an xls file

From: Norman Hinds (Norman.Hinds.14oyco_at_excelforum-nospam.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:11:14 -0500

Keith G Hicks wrote:
> *I just made some code and form modifications to an Excel 2000 file.
> One of
> the sections of code creates a new work*** in the workbook. Now
> every
> time I try to open the Excel file I get the message
>
> "EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You
> will
> need to restart the program. An error log has been created"
>
> First of all, where is the error log? Sure would be nice if MS would
> tell
> you where the log is in the message.
>
> Secondly, there are forms, code, macros and menus in this file.
> Somethign
> has become corrupt I fear. Is there any way to open the file
> without
> anything running (like the shift key strategy in MS Access). I've
> tried
> making a copy of the file. The copy behaves the same way. I could
> of
> course redo all the changes I just made on an older copy, but would
> like to
> avoid that.
>
> All other Excel files open up just fine. No problem there. It's
> definitely
> something in this particular file.
>
> Any ideas here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith *

Hi Keith,

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Good luck 

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