entering an = or + causes excel to crash

keithkemble

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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
 

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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
 
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