Excel does not want to start

Question

I have this when I try to open (sorry I don't know where to post my message).

Answer 1

Hi @elyes allani,

1. Sometimes, add-ins can cause problems. To determine, if add-in is a problem start your application in safe mode and see if problem has gone away.

If yes, then start application normally and disable add-ins one by one and start application again every time you disable an add-in to determine the culprit add-in.
To disable add-in > File > Options > Add-ins > Down below you have Manage: Com Add-in: Press Go > Untick the Add-ins to disable and tick to enable them.

2. Please look into C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel (replace username with your username, you can directly reach here by copy and pasting following without quotes in Explorer address bar - "%appdata%\Microsoft\Excel") and see if is contains few files / folders. Move those files to some other location (i.e create a backup of those files / folders and delete all files / folders from here). Hence, make Excel folder blank.

Now open Excel and see if the problem disappears or not.

Note - If the above path is not applicable for your installation, you need to find XLSTART path. Excel folder contains XLSTART folder in itself (In case, your XLSTART path is not in Appdata)
Open Excel > ALT+F11 > If Immediate Window is not visible, type CTRL+G. Same can be also be accessed through View > Immediate Window > Type "? application.StartupPath" without quotes and press enter > You will have your path below.

3. Try repairing your office installation (Quick repair is good enough). Try repairing your Office installation. First try Quick Repair (takes 5 - 10 mins) , if that doesn't help then try Online Repair (Takes more than 30 mins but less than 1 hour in general) . https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair...

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Answer 2

Hi,

You should refer to this thread on the same issue you're facing.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/excel-couldnt-start-last-time/b6bc7b1c-e5ca-4d09-a1df-0dff84785d6e

Best Regards.