Lo,
At 23:39 23/05/2012, you wrote:
On 05/23/12 18:30, Martin N wrote:
Hello,
Excel 2010 seems to fall over with a generic error message and the option
to restart excel. Updates had been completed around Xmas and i have not done
any more since. I guess i could try to check for more but it was
awful trying to
install office 2010 on windows xp when i had a trial on previously.
Dont really
want to risk a reinstall.
It only happens in Excel, web browsing works fine and imaging partitions does
as well. The laptop doesnt crash just excel when it performs larger
formatting
changes or calculation over multiple worksheets.
Any idea how to trouble shoot this?
Possible causes?
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
Sorry to say this, but you need to uninstall, reboot, install, reboot, apply
all the patches.
oh pants, exactly what i didn't want to hear.
MS office 2010 has been the most difficult piece of software that i
have ever come across
to get working with activation.
I certainly would not recommend anyone buy it.
The reboots prevent some weird little problems. I have debugged a problem
with Office 2003 and Word, and I wasted at least 40 hours on that.
Tearing the damned thing out and reinstalling it is the only reasonable
thing to do.
Except it doesn't un install properly.
Even with the office un installer and running MS fix it solution application.
Utter nightmare getting rid of the trial version to be able to get the bought
version to activate.
You said you hadn't done any updates since Christmas. Bad move. This
means you have a not-completely-patched Office with presumably patched
Windows, which I am now seeing as a new problem for some of my users.
Ok thanks I will try that first.
and any other suggestions before i spend hours messing about with crap
MS uinstalling reinstalling voodoo.
Want to know the best solution to this? Get LibreOffice. I have three
friends who have completely abandoned Office in favor of that.
But if you must run Office do the right thing and reinstall completely,
and then enter Patch Purgatory.
Its for an ECDL level 2 course so unfortunately i have to use it.
Before this course i was happy with an old version of open office.
thanks for the reply
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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