One of the machines in a different department has developed a strange problem with Excel. It simply won't open.
Trying to open Excel will sometimes cause the logo to appear in the middle of the screen for a moment but that's it.
In the event log I get this:
Event ID 2001
Rejected Safe Mode action: Microsoft office Excel.
I've looked into this or similar problems and tried to fix it, the following are some of the things I've tried:
Running the file Excel.exe directly.
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/e %1
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/e
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/s
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/safe
(tried in both normal and windows safe mode)
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/automation
I've deleted all temp files in Windows/temp and in the users profile temp
The XLSTART directories are empty
I've re-named .xlb and .pip files to .old so that Office re-creates them.
I've tried the Office disc repair
I uninstalled Office 2003, re-booted and re-installed 2003, this didn't work, so I uninstalled it again and installed
Office 2000
This didn't fix the problem the problem is the same in both versions of Office.
However I can get Office 2000 Excel to open in safe mode with this:
Start Run: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE"
/safe
Once open I tried:
Remove all add-ins
Selected "Ignore other applications"
neither worked :o(
One of the remaining options is to format the machine and start again, but obviously I don't want to do that.
Any ideas experts?
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