Re: Nag message on excel installation with Vista

Dave

You are a star. The old ways are still the best; lovely to use the command
prompt again and lo and beld it found another copy of that pdf file. No more
nag screens in Excel now.

Havn't found Start/Run in Vista but the comand prompt can be accessed frm
Start/AllProgrames/Accessories..
Thanks again for your help and patience

Philip

PS apologies for not replying sooner



"Dave Peterson" <petersod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:464249F2.C1356A5E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keep looking. I bet you missed one of the locations of that addin.

Or...

Maybe the name changed in different versions? I'd look for pdf*.xla, then
*.xla.

Remember to look in hidden folders, too.

And maybe an old DOS command would help (I don't know if it'll work in Vista,
though):

Start|Run
(is there such a thing??)

CMD
(to get to the Command prompt)

cd\
(to get to the root directory)

dir pdf*.xla /s
or
dir *.xla /s

The /s says to search subfolders, too.



Philip Reece-Heal wrote:

Thanks Dave

Advice looked god. Found and deleted the .xla file you pointed at and
searched for other ocurences: none. However, I still get the same problem. I
do have Norto Antivirus but hat was update yesterday.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again

Philip

"Dave Peterson" <petersod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:46423866.D9237A28@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Coincidence with Vista:
>
> Take a look here:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307410
> OFF: "Compile Error in Hidden Module" Error Message When You Start
> Word or Excel
>
> It points at PDFMaker.xla as being the culprit.
>
> If you move/delete that addin, you should be ok.
>
>
>
> Philip Reece-Heal wrote:
>>
>> Have installed my trusty Office XP onto a new laptop running Windows
>> Vista.
>>
>> When I open Excel I get the meassage "Compile error in hidden >> module:
>> AutoExecNew"
>> When I close Excel I get the message "Compile error in hidden
>> module:
>> DistMon"
>>
>> As far as I can ascertain, Excel is working OK. Anyone got any ideas >> as
>> to
>> wha my problem is & what I can do about it?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Philip
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson

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