%^Y#)(&)YIUOI&)&T* Excel Crashes

[jyl]

BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP F--ING BLEEP

Can someone explain to me, in more-or-less layman's language, why there is any excuse for MS Excel crashing?

This happens about 1X week, I have several workbooks open, go to open another one, and I get the "We're sorry [no they aren't] Excel had to close" message. I lose the last 15 minutes of work, which maybe isn't much but why should it happen at all?

Can't the damn program recover gracefully from an error?

[bryanthompson]

You've posted on this before, and the answer hasn't changed... no. Excel/MS just sucks.

[SlowToady]

What version are you running? I've used 2003 on XP SP2 and on 2000 SP4 (or whatever) without many problems. I can't recall any program crashes...

Now, IE on the other hand.....

[id10t]

Just for giggles, download OpenOffice and see if it doesn't like your spreadsheet files....

[Paul_Heery]

Originally posted by jyl

This happens about 1X week, I have several workbooks open, go to open another one, and I get the "We're sorry [no they aren't] Excel had to close" message. I lose the last 15 minutes of work, which maybe isn't much but why should it happen at all?

I've seen this happen many times. It is normally fixed by one thing...you need more RAM.

I don't say this about many Microsoft products, but Excel is a wonderful program. Unfortunately, it can be a resource hog. I don't know the nature or structure of the workbooks that you are using. But, what caused me to zero in on this was your statement "several workbooks open". Does this happen with only one workbook open? (although I've seen similar behavior with only one, large, formula-laden workbook open).

I used to experience this every now and then. Since I went to 2GB of RAM on my work PC, this problem has gone away for me.

[turbo6bar]

If you use this software to keep up with your investments, be aware that declining short position values will cause Excel to crash.

[jyl]

I suppose it it probably a RAM problem. Usually I have 6 large workbooks and 5-7 other apps running at the same time.

[mschuep]

Somewhere, in a billion dollar dark corner, Bill Gates is cackling, "mwuhahaahhahahahaa"

I swear he makes the glitches just to pissus off