Excel 2K and Win2K Pro problem

[MarkRCC]

Hi.

Running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 Pro workstation (1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 256 MB RAM).

Just installed Office 2000 on this workstation and all works fine except for Excel. All opens fine and seems to work ok until I highlight either a cell or a column and try to set bold, centre justify, etc. At this point Excel stops responding. I check resources and CPU utilisation is hovering around the 0% mark with approximately 80-90 % RAM free. I do have NAVCE running but can't imagine this causing the problem as I have an older Win98SE workstation with less than 1/2 of the resources available than this one with NAVCE running on it and all works great.

Has anyone had similar issues? Any suggestions or ideas as to what might be causing this annoying problem?

TIA

Mark

 

[SteveBausch]

I can only offer a generic remedy, if you think you have a specific combination of factors, perhaps do a Google.


Had a lot of grief with MSDN puking on me, crashing HTML Help, crashing VB, etc. I would attempt a search, and down it would go.

So....

Uninstalled MSDN (took the opportunity to uninstall misc. bundled crap that came with 'puter).

Set up a batch file to repeatedly run DeFrag (15-20 times for the OS partition and 15-20 times for the applications partition)

Reinstalled MSDN.

Along the way, restarted as requested, restarted when I felt it was useful.


All Good Now.



My specific situation was XP Home, VB6 MSDN(?). I have found XP to be a bit flakey, though it may simply may be operator skillset. I did find that multiple defrags kept returning incremental improvements, as indicated in the Analyze dialog.


Oh, you can't run a command line DeFrag while the GUI DeFrag is open. No explicit error messages, you just can't.

 

[S1ick]

Mark, I have the same problem, did you ever find the answer?

Sl1ck