Re: EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows

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Even if you could review the log file, I bet it wouldn't help. (It surely
doesn't help most humans!)

But one of the things that excel does when you close it is update your
customized toolbar file (*.xlb).

With excel closed:

windows|start button|search
search for *.xlb
in hidden folders and files.

Rename all the *.xlb to *.xlbOLD.

Test it out by restarting excel and doing some stuff and closing excel.

If it worked, delete the *.xlbOLD files.

This means that any changes you've made to builtin toolbars is gone--but you can
recreate them at your leisure.

(When you've finished recreating those changes, find that *.xlb file and back it
up to a nice spot. If anything bad happens again, you just delete the bad *.xlb
and replace it with the backup.)

Mike Fabrico wrote:
>
> I receive the following error periodically when I'm
> closing (X'ing) out of a spread***.
>
> EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by
> Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error
> log is being created.
>
> Does anyone know what causes this and what I can do to
> correct this? I cannot view the log file either.

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Dave Peterson
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