Excel won't let me change formats in cells

gwa1982

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Dear all,

Excel won't let me change formats in cells. It says "to many cell formats".

It returns this error message below after crashing once i try a few times to change the cel formatt.

I have no idea how to fix this. Can you help?

Thanks
Geoff


Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0


Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2015-09-28 19:04:39 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Excel
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Excel
Application Signature: XCEL
Application Version: 14.3.1.130117
Crashed Module Name: CoreFoundation
Crashed Module Version: 855.17
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00018cdd
Blame Module Name: MicrosoftComponentPlugin
Blame Module Version: 14.3.1.130117
Blame Module Offset: 0x00048105
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 0
 

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bane of my life, i save and close excel then restart and it works for a while, not found a proper solution
 
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