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Joerg wrote:
> Martin Brown wrote:
>> Joerg wrote:
>>> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:38:48 -0700, Joerg
>>>> <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have Excel. "An unknown error occurred", the usual meaningful MS 
>>>>> error message :-(
>>
>> There are plenty of those. I think they learnt the style from IBM.
>>
>> Even worse when it just dies or stops responding spontaneously. At 
>> least these days it doesn't usually take the OS with it although I 
>> suspect XL2007 took down Vista on my portable last week.
>>
>> First time I have seen Vista completely dead in the water. Stopped 
>> responding to the keyboard and then shortly after I tried to close 
>> XL2007 the mouse pointer stopped with the pointer still on the close X.
>>
>> Being a portable I had to wait for the battery to die. No reset button :(
> 
> 
> On many laptops holding down the power button for several seconds resets 
> the box. I tend to stay with older software where I can. 

In this particular instance it was dead with a capital D. Absolutely 
nothing worked (not the off switch, numlock or suspend on close) and the 
display was frozen in time. I wondered if there had been a hardware 
failure, but it recovered after the battery went flat.

> Saves a little 
> in cost but the main reason is that older generally means more reliable 
> when it comes to software or OS. And Vista will not enter these here 
> premises ;-)

Unfortunately, I have some customers already on Vista. It isn't all that 
bad, but it isn't a noticeable improvement over XP. And it is slower.

XL2007 is a complete crock of shit and best avoided though. There is a 
bun fight between the Vista & XL development teams over searching 
directories with wildcards (it doesn't work properly in XL2007 VBA and a 
commonly used method has been withdrawn unilaterally breaking lots of 
code). The suggested work around is a joke and only works on Vista.
> 
>>> Well, it reads all other files just fine.
>>
>> Chances are something is wrong with the file. You could try the XL 
>> viewer (free download from MS) it is somewhat more error tolerant than 
>> the main application (or a clone that will open XL workbooks). If it 
>> opens copy and paste the stuff it can decode into a new worksheet.
>>
> 
> Well, I know what's in there anyhow since I am a PG&E customer :-(

PG&E ? Sorry don't recognise the acronym. Pacific something or other?

Regards,
Martin Brown
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