Vista - Excel - "has stopped working" - WHY???

Using Vista + Office 2003, does anyone know why nearly every time I close a
file in Excel it stops working? I keep getting the rather useful messages
telling me it's stopped working and then that it's restarting. It's driving
me mad!!

Example when it happens is... open an Excel document, print it, then close
it again using the "x" in the top right corner. Repeat this again but close
it using "File", "Exit" and Excel stopped working again.

I have tried using the Detect and Repair option under the Help menu, but
this hasn't solved the problem.

Any ideas?

Hi,

Does this happens for only one excel file or for the files? Maybe reinstall excel is the easiest way to slove it. But if only one file causes crash, the file is probably damaged. If necessary, you can try a utility called Advanced Excel Repair to repair your Excel xls file. I have used it to recover my corrupt Excel xls files. Hope this helps.

Alan

I have absolutely the same problem.
See my post Vista Forums > Vista Newsgroups > Vista General> Excel crashes on exit - OLEAUT32.DLL problem

Copy of it is following:
When closing Excel (2003 or 2007) it crashes and stop working. Meantime if firstly close the opened files and after that close the Excel itself it exits normally.

The following error description appears when crashing:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: EXCEL.EXE
Application Version: 11.0.8231.0
Application Timestamp: 48934d57
Fault Module Name: OLEAUT32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a74f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00004580
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
Brand: Office11Crash
skulcid: 1033

Please advise solution or where to find good OLEAUT32.DLL

This problem is very old in my laptop hence Windows restore is not applicable.

Best regards


I had a long correspondence with Microsoft support in my country without any success. They are fully useless. By their advise I had reinstalled Office 2003 several times, Installed Office 2007 - no success. The same is happening with Excel 2007 as well. Meantime I had checked the computer for viruses with different anti virus programs even starting the windows from CD (not from the Hard Drive) and using anti virus program from the same CD - noting helped. OLEAUT32.DLL in my windows is the same size and same date as the one in my wife computer so most probably it is not the cause of the problem.
Excel is crashing with any file opened on it when I am trying to close the program. meantime if I close the file first and after that the Excel it is closing by normal way. It is not Excel problem due to appears with Excel2003 and 2007.

Is there somebody that can give advise how to solve this problem?

After some search in the Internet I finally found the solution:

Click "start" - the button down left to your screen Select "run" and type "regedit".
Click OK. The Registry Editor opens in a window.

In the registry editor locate the following: HKEY, LOCALMACHINE, SOFTWARE, MICROSOFT, OFFICE, EXCEL, ADDINS, BtOFFICEAddin.BtOFFICEIntegration.1

Under label "Name" there should be a line: "Lodbehavior". Now in the same line under "Type" there should be REG_DWORD" and under "Data" there should be "0x0000003 (3)" or something similar as far as the last digit is concerned (in this case 3).

Behold, you are close to the solution... Change the last digit AND the one in brackets (in my case 3) to read 0! In my case under "Data" now reads "0x0000000 (0)".

That's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Close the registry editor and restart the computer.

Your Excel now is working perfectly!


Enjoy

Actually the Microsoft support was close to the solution. They gave me advise to open menu>tools>add-ins and to disable Blue tooth add-in (or some thing like this, do not remember exactly) But in the Add-ins list BT add-in was not available. From the solution is clear visible that registry entries for bt add-in exist even same is not in the list. And it was really there. After applying the above solution Excel is working fine.

OK
thanks Gendov
my Excel is working perfectly

Try uncheck the send to Bluetooth Com Addin and all VBA related in Excel
Addins. It might help.

"Gendov" wrote:

Actually, I can't find the BtOFFICEAddin.BtOFFICEIntegration.1 on the registry path given. I used the Find function and found it under Access Tree. I changed it and my Excel working as normal again. THANKS dude!

Hi
I have found this link. The suggestion helped in my case.
Excel crashes on exit - OLEAUT32.DLL problem

"jakub" <jakub@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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It could also be because the OP has a trial version..

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