Excel 2003, System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259)

[Kdit]

Hi there I am getting this error popping up every time I open up my excel:

[Pop up 1]
System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259)

close it down...
[Pop up 2]

Out of memory (Visual Basic heading on the pop up box)

I was on a microsoft help site & they had a "work around solution" that did not work.

So when I open up excel, I get the two pop ups as discribed above. As soon as I try to save any file, I get the first pop up & I cannot do anything else (actually have to shut down excel from the task master)

Please let me know if anyone has a solution to this, as I use excel quite a lot.

Also, this seems to have popped up after I finished uninstalling a 2010 office demo pack - not sure if they are related, but I cannot think of any other catalyst.

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions

 

[Derek Brown]

Hello and welcome to The Board.
When installing multiple versions of Excel, Microsoft recommends installing them (a Custom install) into different folders (e.g C:\Program Files\Micosoft Office 2003 and C:\Program Files\Micosoft Office 2010).
it is possible that uninstalling Office 2010 has resulted in one or more files required by Office 2003 being deleted.
You could try doing a 'repair' of Office 2003 - insert the CD and you should be presented with a repair option.

 

[Kdit]

Derek, thx for your post. Will definately remember the diff. file paths going fwd... only issue with the CD is I've recently moved cities... God only knows where it is

 

[Derek Brown]

For future reference, here are the Microsoft pages that describe installing more than one version of Office (the order of installation is also important):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/218861
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828956/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290576/