Tom
That was good, sensible advice (which my totally non-technical husband
had already given) but it had taken me several days to come round to
that way of thinking, unfortunately. I do still wonder if the problem
was caused by a virus, hope it doesn't reappear! Thanks for your
help.
Ondine.
Tom van Stiphout <tom7744@no.spam.cox.net> wrote in message news:<mqr4d0dcgonsa5j4h3osrlnbas82b2kd3m@4ax.com>. ..[color=blue]
> On 17 Jun 2004 16:07:37 -0700,
osprite99@yahoo.co.uk (Ondine) wrote:
>
> Reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling the apps takes a known
> quantity of time. Continuing to try to find a fix takes an unknown
> quantity of time. There comes a point where option A is the most
> attractive one.
>
> -Tom.
>
>
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> >Hi
> >
> >I hope someone might be able to help me with this, because having paid
> >for support from Microsoft I'm still getting nowhere.
> >
> >I don't know if this is due to a file corruption or virus (I have no
> >viruses now), but I cannot get in to the VB Editor via any Office
> >(2000) program.
> >In Access, when trying to open a module the message is "Unexpected
> >error; quitting". In Excel the error message is "Out of memory". In
> >Word, nothing happens at all.
> >
> >In other respects, the programs seem to run properly, even Access apps
> >with loads of code behind them.
> >
> >I tried to repair Office several times, to no avail. MS instructed me
> >on how to do a clean install of Office 2000, deleting registery keys
> >etc but the problem remains. The Office techy now wants to hand me
> >over to the Windows team, and I can see a reformatting of my hard
> >drive coming, but I really want to avoid that.
> >
> >I'm sure this has something to do with a bad dll file; does ANYONE
> >have any ideas? I depend on writing VB code for my livelihood and so
> >am getting very anxious about this.
> >
> >Any advice gratefully received[/color][/color]