Can't launch MS Word, Excel and Power Point!!

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Yesterday, I tried to open my Excel documents then it show a dialog said

<b>"The application Microsoft Excel has
unexpectedly quit."</b>
:mad:

Then I tried Word and PowerPoint, all of them show the same dialog.

But when I switch to other user account they works fine.
:confused:

What can I do to fix this problem ?
Please help me :(
 
Originally posted by testuser
There are a couple of things you can try:
Look in you user's Library -> Prefernces folder. Find and delete these files:
LSApplications
LSClaimedTypes
LSSchemes

The LS files when corrupt can sometimes cause launch problems.

If that isn't the problem, you could try deleting the "Microsoft" folder in the same directory.
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Are there any other things to do? I have MSv.x since it was out and have never used Excel or PowerPoint due to the same problem?!!! Thank God Entourage and Word work. I would've had to use Classic otherwise!!! I'm just awaiting MS updates. As it took the Hotmail updater for Entourage to stop "Unexpectedly Quit"ing
 
I am 99% percent sure it is the Project Gallery bug! I have seen this on more than five Macs now. It is rather easy to fix. Take a word document and double click it. Now go to Word Prefs and disable "show project gallery at startup". Now, select "New" and in the Project Gallery, select a Powerpoint file. Once PP is running, go to it's prefs and deselect "Show Project Gallery at startup". Again, make a "new" document, this time Excel, and do the same thing.

It should work then.
 
Originally posted by ulrik
I am 99% percent sure it is the Project Gallery bug! I have seen this on more than five Macs now. It is rather easy to fix. Take a word document and double click it. Now go to Word Prefs and disable "show project gallery at startup". Now, select "New" and in the Project Gallery, select a Powerpoint file. Once PP is running, go to it's prefs and deselect "Show Project Gallery at startup". Again, make a "new" document, this time Excel, and do the same thing.

It should work then.
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Good advice.

Excel and PP still crash. Excel crashes when I load a cell with data!!!!!! AGHHHHHHH. I'm formatting my HD in a few months anyway so, it could be a kext conflict. who knows.

Ta for your help guys (testuser, ulrik)
 
I had a problem with office unexpectedly quitting also, but it turned out to be a problem with fonts.

Microsofts website lists the solution

<quote>

SYMPTOMS

After you double-click an Office v. X program, the program splash screen appears, but then the program unexpectedly quits.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when there is a damaged or unsupported font in one of the Mac OS X Fonts folders or in the Classic Mac OS 9. x Fonts folder.
When an Office v. X program starts, it reads and optimizes all of the fonts that are available in the operating system. If the program finds a damaged font, the program may quit unexpectedly.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, you must locate and disable the damaged font.
</quote>

hope that helps
 
I already tried deleting these files
LSApplications
LSClaimedTypes
LSSchemes and
Microsoft folder in ~/Library/Preferences

but it still didn't work for me.

I looking at the splash screen when I launch Word, it reaches
"Optimizing font menu performance..."
and quit.

And I also can't open Word. So, I can't disable Project Gallery. What should I do next ?
 
To djeans

Could you tell me a bit more detailed ? Coz I'm just a new Mac user.
:eek:
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Bright!!
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You need to sort through Fonts.

MS Office is picky.

Remember to check the Classic OS 9 Fonts folder too.

Good luck.

Versiontracker has a font manager - X Font Manager I think. Search for Font anyway.
 
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