entering an = or + causes excel to crash

[keithkemble]

Excel is quite solid, however yesterday while using excel 97 the program developed the bug above.

EVERY TIME I go to enter a formula using the above it returns an invalid page error in module excel.exe.

If I edit and them use the home key, as soon as I use either of the above it also crashes.

Interestingly when I am on the LAn/WAn I use the same version/ program ( c but the problem is not there. Excel behaving properly.

I have checked and cleared all temp files , start up directories etc but to no avail.

Has anyone come across this before and if so how did you overcome it?

keith

[Anne Troy]

If following the directions at:

http://www.thewordexpert.com/cleanyourpc.htm

do not work, we may need to dump your registry key. Go to Start-Run and type regedit and hit enter.

For Excel 97, browse to:
hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftoffice8.0excel

For Excel 2000, browse to:
hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftoffice9.0excel

Right-click the excel folder and rename it to OldExcel. Close the registry editor and launch Excel.

[keithkemble]

Thanks for the help. I will give it a go.

[keithkemble]

Dreamboat,

As I have already cleaned out the temp files etc I chose to take the Regedit route.
I can confirm it worked first time.

Thanks a million.
KK