[Solved] Can Not Exit From Excel 2000 On Vista Home

[jimhabegger]

OS: Vista Home

 

Excel version: Microsoft Office 2000

 

 

 

If I try to exit from Excel using the red X button, or File, Exit, or Alt-F4, or the taskbar, nothing happens. If I try to close the workbook window using its X button, or create a new workbook, I get this message:

 

Microsoft Excel for Windows has stopped working

 

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

 

 

 

This just started happening yesterday, March 7. The only installations I know of that happened yesterday were a Java update and a Flash Player update.

 

 

 

The problem happens when I launch Excel from the start menu or application icon, and when I launch it by double-clicking on a workbook icon, with one exception. I have one workbook that I downloaded from the Internet some months ago. When I launch Excel by double-clicking on that workbook, I can exit normally. I've used that workbook many times since I downloaded it, and I've used Excel often since then, without ever having this problem until yesterday.

[jimhabegger]

Update: I uninstalled the whole Office 2000 suite, deleted all the Microsoft Office folders in the Program Files folder and in all user application data folders, ran ccleaner, restarted the computer, and re-installed Office 2000, and I still have the problem. Apart from double-clicking on the workbook I downloaded from the Internet, no matter how I launch Excel, nothing happens if I try to exit using any menu or button, and it crashes if I try to close the workbook with its X button.

 

 

 

I found a way to work around the problem: I modified the workbook that I downloaded from the Internet, to make a default template which I saved in the XLStart folder. Now when I launch Excel from the Start menu, I can exit from it normally. I still can't exit if I launch it by double-clicking on any workbook other than the one I downloaded.

 

 

 

OS: Vista Home

 

Excel version: Microsoft Office 2000

 

 

 

If I try to exit from Excel using the red X button, or File, Exit, or Alt-F4, or the taskbar, nothing happens. If I try to close the workbook window using its X button, or create a new workbook, I get this message:

 

 

 

 

 

This just started happening yesterday, March 7. The only installations I know of that happened yesterday were a Java update and a Flash Player update.

 

 

 

The problem happens when I launch Excel from the start menu or application icon, and when I launch it by double-clicking on a workbook icon, with one exception. I have one workbook that I downloaded from the Internet some months ago. When I launch Excel by double-clicking on that workbook, I can exit normally. I've used that workbook many times since I downloaded it, and I've used Excel often since then, without ever having this problem until yesterday.

[jimhabegger]

The problem is resolved. A day or two before it started, I had changed the language for non-Unicode programs. Yesterday, I changed it back to English, to resolve another problem I was having. Then I went back to investigating my problem with Excel, and it was gone! I changed the non-Unicode language again, and the problem came back. I changed it back to English, and the problem was gone again.

 

 

 

OS: Vista Home

 

Excel version: Microsoft Office 2000

 

 

 

If I try to exit from Excel using the red X button, or File, Exit, or Alt-F4, or the taskbar, nothing happens. If I try to close the workbook window using its X button, or create a new workbook, I get this message:

 

 

 

 

 

This just started happening yesterday, March 7. The only installations I know of that happened yesterday were a Java update and a Flash Player update.

 

 

 

The problem happens when I launch Excel from the start menu or application icon, and when I launch it by double-clicking on a workbook icon, with one exception. I have one workbook that I downloaded from the Internet some months ago. When I launch Excel by double-clicking on that workbook, I can exit normally. I've used that workbook many times since I downloaded it, and I've used Excel often since then, without ever having this problem until yesterday.

[AWS]

Thanks for posting the solution. I would never had thought changing that would break things.