How to Fix Excel Startup Errors on Windows/Mac?File Repair Tool Blog

MS excel startup error is the error that makes an excel spread sheet file totally inaccessible, it display an error message when user tries to open excel file. This error is very difficult to fix because excel file can’t be open at the time of repairing so that users can’t apply any method on it.

Some of the known startup issues are:   

• Corrupted Excel program shortcut
• Incorrect version
• Clash with another application
• Registry keys corruption
• Corrupted add-ins
• Corrupted *.xlb Excel toolbar file
• Corrupted *.pip Excel file

Resolution

*Fix corrupted Shortcut of the Excel Program

1. Close all the MS Office programs
2. Click on the “Start” button, select Search, and then click on the “For Files or Folders” option
3. Type in it: Excel.exe
4. When you see Excel.exe file then double-click on the file
5. If MS Excel application starts up, then it is sure that your application is secure and error occurs in the MS excel shortcut.
6. To fix this error, make a new shortcut to the MS Excel application.

To create new shortcut, follow these steps:

• Right click on the Excel.exe file
• Select Create Shortcut

If Excel application does not start as declared then follow the remaining given steps to execute Excel application in the Safe Mode.

Click on the “Start” of the computer select Run and type excel.exe/s to run excel application in the safe mode.

If MS Excel executes in safe mode then “Safe Mode” appears in the title bar of MS Excel. Apply the given ms excel recovery solution in safe mode until the problem is fixed.

*Fix the corrupted MS Excel Toolbar File

MS excel file use a toolbar file to store all the information about custom toolbars and when the toolbar file get damaged then it can causes problems while startup.

To repair Toolbar file follow these steps:

Click on the “Start” button, select “Search” and select For “Files or Folders”

Type in search box: *.xlb

When the file is located, then rename the located file. The toolbar file is stored in C:Application DataMicrosoftExcel.

Now Restart Excel application and a new toolbar file will be automatically created.

*Fix Corrupted Excel.pip File

Corrupted Excel.pip file can affect the startup of the ms excel file so by repairing this file we can fix the startup problems of excel file. This application keep in mind the recent commands and menus that user have display and used them first it will also hides the unused menus and commands in its expendables menu. All these information along with menu animation settings stored in Excel.pip file.

To Repair this file follow these steps:     

Click on the “Start” button, select “Search” option and select For “Files or Folders”

Type Excel.pip in search box

After searching this file rename it to “Excel.pip.old”

Restart MS excel application then a new .pip file will be created.

*Fix Corrupted Add-ins

To verify if the damaged add-ins are responsible for the startup errors, follow these steps:

Open Run and type in excel.exe/automation and if the MS excel application gets start then it is sure that your add-ins are get corrupted.

To fix Add-ins, follow given steps:

Run MS Excel application

Select “Add-Ins” presents in the Tools menu

Clear all the add-ins container check boxes and click “Ok”

After it remove the following registry keys

To do this task

Click on the “Start” and choose “Run” option and type “regedit”

Now find the way to the following paths:

For Excel 2003 

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0

For Excel 2002 

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0

For Excel 2000 

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0

[Note: modifying registry keys may corrupt your entire computer system or application.]

If startup problem doesn’t rectify by you or you are unable to fix this error after applying the above given solutions then it can only be fixed by using any third party ms excel file repair tool. If you don’t have any technical knowledge then this tool is suitable for you because it is very simple to operate and able to recover and repair your corrupted or error showing ms excel file.

Steps to Fix Excel Startup Errors:

Step 1: Download the recovery software and after that hit on “OK” button to start the process.

Step 2: To recover the corrupt file, hit on “Select file” button. BY using the “Look in” you can search from particular logical drive.

Step 3: Select the corrupt file from the search list with the help of check box. After that hit on “Select all” and hit on “Start” button to begin the scanning process.

Step 4: As soon as the scanning process completes, you can view your corrupt files.

Step 5: At last, hit on the “Start repair” button to begin the repairing process. Select the perfect location to save your repaired excel file and after that hit on “OK” button.