How to intentionally make Excel crash

[robmazco]

Well heres a weird one. A user is getting errors in excel 2007 -

Not enough system resources to display completely.

Im 99% sure its formulas and such within spreadsheets they are in, using and /or creating, but the user is of course blaming everything else. Laptop works as expected when excel is not running...thats a no-brainer to me.
So what I wanna do is open a new spreadsheet and load something in to recreate the error. Is this possible?

 

[robmazco]

Other thoughts are Pivot tables going too far? Or maybe some sort of circular calculating loop?

 

[xlhelp]

First go to

http://www.theofficeexperts.com/cleanyourpc.htm

and perform steps 1, 2, and 3.

See if things improve.

With Excel closed, find a file with xlb extension and rename or delete it

See if things improve.

Next remove Find Fast if installed. (yes, I know the article relates to 2K)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q199787/

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[robmazco]

mmm as soon as they allow me to look at their laptop, Ill let you know what happens.

 

[Bandenjamin]

Have you tried the spreadsheet on another workstation? If it is a problem in Excel one would think that it would ocurr on any pc

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