i can't open excel workbook if it has a chart in it!

Hello

My boss is running Office xp with SP3, the same as me, but can't open an
excel sheet with a chart in, even though I can. Excel just crashes and send a
message to Microsoft.

please help

Aidan

First, just guesses.

On the boss's pc:
close excel
clean up windows temp folder
Try opening the troublesome workbook.

==========

Still broken?
close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

File|open (the workbook)

If that works, then visit Chip Pearson's site to see if you can isolate the
problem.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

============
Still broken?
Maybe opening the workbook in another program and saving it there would help
"clean" it up.

Lots of people have had good luck with OpenOffice--when excel couldn't open the
workbook.
http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD



Aidan wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> My boss is running Office xp with SP3, the same as me, but can't open an
> excel sheet with a chart in, even though I can. Excel just crashes and send a
> message to Microsoft.
>
> please help
>
> Aidan

--

Dave Peterson

Hello Dave

Thanks for these tips will try them as soon as possible and get back to you!!

Thanks again
Aidan

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> First, just guesses.
>
> On the boss's pc:
> close excel
> clean up windows temp folder
> Try opening the troublesome workbook.
>
> ==========
>
> Still broken?
> close excel
> windows start button|Run
> excel /safe
>
> File|open (the workbook)
>
> If that works, then visit Chip Pearson's site to see if you can isolate the
> problem.
> http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm
>
> ============
> Still broken?
> Maybe opening the workbook in another program and saving it there would help
> "clean" it up.
>
> Lots of people have had good luck with OpenOffice--when excel couldn't open the
> workbook.
> http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD
>
>
>
> Aidan wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > My boss is running Office xp with SP3, the same as me, but can't open an
> > excel sheet with a chart in, even though I can. Excel just crashes and send a
> > message to Microsoft.
> >
> > please help
> >
> > Aidan
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>