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My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South.
I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam |
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wrote in message news My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam Calling it OT might be nit-picking, but since you're running it on Win10, I wouldn't think it is. But that's just my HAWO :-) Have you tried doing a repair of Excel? Go to Control PanelPrograms and Features, scroll down to either MS Excel or MS Office (however it was installed in the first place), highlight it and click on Repair from the Uninstall/Change/Repair selections at the top of the program list. I am also running MS Office 2003, and have seen Excel and Outlook get broken after a MS Update. Repair has always worked for me (so far, knock on wood). -- SC Tom |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 07:20:42 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:
wrote in message news My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam Calling it OT might be nit-picking, but since you're running it on Win10, I wouldn't think it is. But that's just my HAWO :-) Have you tried doing a repair of Excel? Go to Control PanelPrograms and Features, scroll down to either MS Excel or MS Office (however it was installed in the first place), highlight it and click on Repair from the Uninstall/Change/Repair selections at the top of the program list. I am also running MS Office 2003, and have seen Excel and Outlook get broken after a MS Update. Repair has always worked for me (so far, knock on wood). I actually uninstalled word/excel, and completely reinstalled same. Twice. Same result. Thanks Sam |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:57:23 -0000 (UTC), Dave
wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:01:58 -0400, SilverSlimer wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:07:53 -0400, wrote: My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. This is Microsoft's way of telling you to upgrade to a later version because they no longer wish to support old software. I have the same issue with Corel Video Studio X6 from 2012 or so. I can't properly install it and even with workarounds, the software crashes when anything is done. Microsoft has no interest in supporting older software at all and feel that charging you about $7 a month (in Canada) to constantly have the latest version of their Office suite is a fair compromise. This is where the strength of open-source software is highlighted as it is constantly free whether to download or to update. Chances are that free software like LibreOffice will load your .XLS files properly and do the same task without any issue if you choose to try it out. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. If the other PC also has Excel 2003 on it and it loads fine, I would suggest that a registry issue might be the cause. If you used a registry cleaner on one PC and not the other, that "cleaner" might have removed entries necessary to ensure stability. I've stopped using registry cleaner for that exact reason. Please refrain from making this type of post. We have a very sensitive contributor going by the name of GoodGuy, who gets very upset if anyone offers a criticism of any version of Windows. This will generally cause him to reply with an insult and refer you to Linux. Linux, I suppose can break after an update although I haven't seen one in over three years. Linux also shuts down and boots up as expected, so no getting a coffee while it installs updates. It also is very polite and only upgrades the items you check at your convenience and rarely if ever requires a re- boot, although this behavior might be distribution dependent. Of course you can fix the op's problem by an upgrade, then you will get to figure out the stupid ribbon stuff cluttering up the top of the page. Good grief. I did not want to cause a rucus. My problem is solved, as it usually is. The helps are appreciated by this 87-yr old I cud say more but I won't - suffice it to say I speak Fortran/Cobol/Basic/PL1/C/ASM/Mandarin. Cya Sam |
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"bobs" wrote in message news On 06/06/2018 12:07, wrote: My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam Widows 10 version 1803 (64bit) breaks MS Excel but the 32bit is OK. Either revert Windows 10 to an earlier version or wait for MS to rectify it (unlikely!!). A work around has been suggested: 1. Select all cells, change justification to something different. 2. Enter you data or whatever. 3. Select all cells, change justification back. 4. Save Not entirely true- I run Excel, Word, and Outlook 2003 on two Win10Pro x64 PCs without any problems. Both are v1803 Build 17134.48. Maybe it's because you're using "Widows" :-) -- SC Tom |
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 07:51:00 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:
"bobs" wrote in message news On 06/06/2018 12:07, wrote: My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam Widows 10 version 1803 (64bit) breaks MS Excel but the 32bit is OK. Either revert Windows 10 to an earlier version or wait for MS to rectify it (unlikely!!). A work around has been suggested: 1. Select all cells, change justification to something different. 2. Enter you data or whatever. 3. Select all cells, change justification back. 4. Save Not entirely true- I run Excel, Word, and Outlook 2003 on two Win10Pro x64 PCs without any problems. Both are v1803 Build 17134.48. Maybe it's because you're using "Widows" Good 1. Sam |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:43:11 +0100, bobs
wrote: Widows 10 version 1803 (64bit) breaks MS Excel but the 32bit is OK. Not true. Excel 2016 runs just fine under 64-bit Windows 10 1803 here. |
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:42:47 -0400, SamSpade wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:57:23 -0000 (UTC), Dave wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:01:58 -0400, SilverSlimer wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:07:53 -0400, wrote: My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. This is Microsoft's way of telling you to upgrade to a later version because they no longer wish to support old software. I have the same issue with Corel Video Studio X6 from 2012 or so. I can't properly install it and even with workarounds, the software crashes when anything is done. Microsoft has no interest in supporting older software at all and feel that charging you about $7 a month (in Canada) to constantly have the latest version of their Office suite is a fair compromise. This is where the strength of open-source software is highlighted as it is constantly free whether to download or to update. Chances are that free software like LibreOffice will load your .XLS files properly and do the same task without any issue if you choose to try it out. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. If the other PC also has Excel 2003 on it and it loads fine, I would suggest that a registry issue might be the cause. If you used a registry cleaner on one PC and not the other, that "cleaner" might have removed entries necessary to ensure stability. I've stopped using registry cleaner for that exact reason. Please refrain from making this type of post. We have a very sensitive contributor going by the name of GoodGuy, who gets very upset if anyone offers a criticism of any version of Windows. This will generally cause him to reply with an insult and refer you to Linux. Linux, I suppose can break after an update although I haven't seen one in over three years. Linux also shuts down and boots up as expected, so no getting a coffee while it installs updates. It also is very polite and only upgrades the items you check at your convenience and rarely if ever requires a re- boot, although this behavior might be distribution dependent. Of course you can fix the op's problem by an upgrade, then you will get to figure out the stupid ribbon stuff cluttering up the top of the page. Good grief. I did not want to cause a rucus. My problem is solved, as it usually is. The helps are appreciated by this 87-yr old I cud say more but I won't - suffice it to say I speak Fortran/Cobol/Basic/PL1/C/ASM/Mandarin. Cya Sam Well, I'll be 88 this month so no bragging about that, and yes, I've used all of those but not Mandarin, Cockney used to be my preferred language, but after I moved to the States it turns out nobody really cared what I spoke (and maybe what I write for all I know).. |
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 16:37:24 -0000 (UTC), Dave
wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:42:47 -0400, SamSpade wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:57:23 -0000 (UTC), Dave wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:01:58 -0400, SilverSlimer wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:07:53 -0400, wrote: My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. This is Microsoft's way of telling you to upgrade to a later version because they no longer wish to support old software. I have the same issue with Corel Video Studio X6 from 2012 or so. I can't properly install it and even with workarounds, the software crashes when anything is done. Microsoft has no interest in supporting older software at all and feel that charging you about $7 a month (in Canada) to constantly have the latest version of their Office suite is a fair compromise. This is where the strength of open-source software is highlighted as it is constantly free whether to download or to update. Chances are that free software like LibreOffice will load your .XLS files properly and do the same task without any issue if you choose to try it out. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. If the other PC also has Excel 2003 on it and it loads fine, I would suggest that a registry issue might be the cause. If you used a registry cleaner on one PC and not the other, that "cleaner" might have removed entries necessary to ensure stability. I've stopped using registry cleaner for that exact reason. Please refrain from making this type of post. We have a very sensitive contributor going by the name of GoodGuy, who gets very upset if anyone offers a criticism of any version of Windows. This will generally cause him to reply with an insult and refer you to Linux. Linux, I suppose can break after an update although I haven't seen one in over three years. Linux also shuts down and boots up as expected, so no getting a coffee while it installs updates. It also is very polite and only upgrades the items you check at your convenience and rarely if ever requires a re- boot, although this behavior might be distribution dependent. Of course you can fix the op's problem by an upgrade, then you will get to figure out the stupid ribbon stuff cluttering up the top of the page. Good grief. I did not want to cause a rucus. My problem is solved, as it usually is. The helps are appreciated by this 87-yr old I cud say more but I won't - suffice it to say I speak Fortran/Cobol/Basic/PL1/C/ASM/Mandarin. Cya Sam Well, I'll be 88 this month so no bragging about that, and yes, I've used all of those but not Mandarin, Cockney used to be my preferred language, but after I moved to the States it turns out nobody really cared what I spoke (and maybe what I write for all I know).. Well welcome to the world of the elderly. Glad you made it this far. Sam |
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On 07/06/2018 17:11, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:43:11 +0100, bobs wrote: Widows 10 version 1803 (64bit) breaks MS Excel but the 32bit is OK. Not true. Excel 2016 runs just fine under 64-bit Windows 10 1803 here. The OP is about Excel 2003. |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 07:20:42 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote: wrote in message news My Excel 2003 (11.5612.5606) seemingly has gone South. I only use it to track household expenses, but I have enjoyed it. Now, however, I cannot enter dollar figures in the cells. Every time I enter a number, and tab to the next cell, it immediately exits, failing to save anything I entered. Interestingly, I can execute the same .xls file to Excel on my other W10 PC, and it works just fine. I need help. Sorry if OT. Sam Calling it OT might be nit-picking, but since you're running it on Win10, I wouldn't think it is. But that's just my HAWO :-) Have you tried doing a repair of Excel? Go to Control PanelPrograms and Features, scroll down to either MS Excel or MS Office (however it was installed in the first place), highlight it and click on Repair from the Uninstall/Change/Repair selections at the top of the program list. I am also running MS Office 2003, and have seen Excel and Outlook get broken after a MS Update. Repair has always worked for me (so far, knock on wood). I actually uninstalled word/excel, and completely reinstalled same. Twice. Same result. Thanks Sam If you type "reliability" into Cortana, the Reliability Monitor page will appear. And entries with a "red X" will indicate application crashes. That uses uses Werfault reports. https://s15.postimg.cc/ggf8u9p2j/werfault.gif The folder in each crash, contains "Report.wer", which is a text file. Copy it some place you can work, and change the extension if you want. The problem with the report, is the error summary is "terse" and may not contain enough descriptive terms to Google and find some breadcrumbs. For example, I know I dereferenced a null pointer, but the Report.wer shows a C0000005 access violation (because I tried to read memory location zero). I would have to be pretty lucky to associate C0000005 with "oops, I dereferences a null pointer". The advantage of the reliability monitor, is it doesn't involve much work. A lazy guy could do that much :-) ******* Since your user name is "Sam Spade", you probably want more details. If you want a dump file, you're going to have to work for it. You'll need to do some regedits. https://s15.postimg.cc/fxa5l8xqj/localdumps_regedit.gif It turns out my dumpchk to read the dump file, came from WSDK. I probably edited the name of the ISO file a bit. A newer version is available. 15063.137.170329-1903.rs2_release_svc_WindowsSDK__Win10SDK.iso There are some details here on installing "Debug Tools" for your Windows 10. https://superuser.com/questions/1198...net-connection # (the download link, possibly a slightly later version) https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=845299 You can right-click the resulting ISO file download, and select the "Mount" option to make it into a virtual CD drive. Running the setup off it, you can tick the "Debugging Tools" tick box, and maybe 150MB of stuff will be added to your C: drive. In there, you'll find a 32 bit and a 64 bit version of "dumpchk.exe". You can copy these over to the C:\DMP as "dumpchk32.exe" and "dumpchk64.exe" if you want, to keep the two versions separate. Then, in a regular command prompt window, you can do: cd /d C:\DMP dumpchk32.exe some.dmp === substitute real name of .dmp file To collect the output in a text file, try this next: dumpchk32.exe some.dmp output.txt and you can open the output.txt in Notepad if you want. ******* This doesn't mean the debugging job is easy, but you might get lucky and find a breadcrumb in there to work with. If you need to share a large text file, you can always try pastebin. http://pastebin.com/ HTH, Paul |
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