Excel has generated an error and will be closed by Windows

On the menu bar in Excel, when I click on Data, Get
External Data, and then New Database Query, Excel just
hangs and stops responding. There is never an error
message, it just stops working. What's causing this?

This is the error I get.  Is there a fix?
XCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 0187:3009aa90.
Registers:

I am using Office 97 SR2, on a Win98 pc.
When I try to create a chart using either the Chart
Wizard button on the toolbar, or going to Insert, Chart,
I get this error msg:

If I disable the Office Assistant and use help I get an
error of MSOHELP.exe has generated errors and will be
closed by Windows.  Office 2000 and Windows 2k is what I
use.

I'm using Excel 2000 and it was working fine this morning,
then I went to input some info and all of the sudden, its
not calculating ANYTHING.  If I add new data to a sheet,
its not calculating the new data?????  This is happening

All right. I currently have a certain excel file that I
use as a database - that is, I store information in each
cell, so I can scroll through and read at will. The
problem: I've been doing this for years, and the file is

Can someone help with this. When I go into "Tools" and try
to open "Options" (I want to set the location of the
default location)Excel 97 come back with a Dialog box that
says error and asks if I want to send error report. It

I have a user running Office 2000 on Windows NT 4.0  with
an important
spreadsheet that they (or I) can't open.  
If they double-click on it from Explorer, Excel is opened

In Excel when we go into Tools...Options and we are
getting the error message
MICROSOFT EXCEL HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO
CLOSE. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

I can't open excel 2000...
It gives an "illegal operation" error message.
I tried to reinstall the office 2000, but it doesn't help.
let me know if you have solution.

downloaded app. from openofice.org to see if it was better
than office as some say. Opened one excel spreadsheet,
didn't like it - uninstalled it.  Now all excel
spreadsheets have file extension xls and won't open until

I have a user running Office 97 on Windows 2000 and when
they try to change the text properties of a cell, i.e.
changing font sytle, size, bold, colour etc. excel crashes
and shuts down.

When I try to run the program, it loads Excel, then the
following message pops up: "Could not register the Visual
Basic environment. please run setup." I clicked OK and got
another message which says: "An error occured initializing

The Lotus 123 file size was 5.5mb
After converting to Excel 2002 the file size is now
13.5mb. The Excess Format Cleaner 1.0a keeps locking up
in Visual Basic Editor. Then Excel locks up.