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Excel Crash when opening files
Excel crashes when opening files.
If I restart Excel and begin a blank spreadsheet then the file can be opened OK from the recovery pane.
It appears that the only way to prevent the crash is to run Excel and start with a blank spreadsheet before trying to open the spreadsheet that I want. Clicking on the spreadsheet with File Explorer or opening directly from the liist of recent files or pinned files by-passes this step and causes the crash.
It happens on both of my computers - I have the latest Office 365 and W10 installed, tried starting in Safe Mode; all have the same outcome
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PeterBartholomew1 , yes, exactly the same issue was recently on insiders builds, but that's new for me if it is on production builds.
PeterB71 , could you please share your exact version? It's in File->Account, like this
- Quite a handful of users have reported the same issue in recent days
PeterB71 More people are experiencing this error. I advise you to use the File, Feedback, send a frown option so that Microsoft is made aware even more of the problem.
OK - done that. I won't hold my breath waiting for a solution.
It does seem to be a fundamental problem and if others are having the same problem then I would have expected more complaints.
To hold your breath would be a somewhat rash promise but I would expect the problem to be dealt with. I had rather assumed that it to be teething problems encountered within beta release code.
