MS Excel quirk...?

[agnieszka]

hello,

a friend of mine has a problem whereby he cannot exit MS Excel using the close button (X), nor by right clicking the application button in the start bar (no option to close in the right-click menu).

He can, despite this, exit the program using File|Exit. However, this is posing an annoying problem, as anyone can imagine.

He is running Win 2000, i believe (if not, it'd be 98 or NT4, but i doubt either of those to be the likely system), and MS Office 2000 (for sure).

to rectify the problem, attempted to scan his C drive (on which Office is installed), asking Windows to attempt to automatically fix any encountered errors.

this approach did not help, nor do i know what next to try. if anyone has any suggestions, or knows how to fix this, or how to best approach the problem, please reply.

thank you,
agnieszka.

 

[_Street_Fighter]

Try reinstalling Office 2000 and get the service packs for them. If that doesn't solve it, then contact Microsoft =P

 

[Weirds]

Do ms word and power point work? I meant their close buttons.

 

[agnieszka]

everything else works fine.

i haven't been back to my friend's place yet to try the first suggested solution (look for up-dates and service packs), then i'll try re-installing the software, as suggested.

it would seem, then, that no one really has seen this problem before. i've yet to browse microsoft's web site for any such warnings/cautions/patches and what-not.

thanks anyway to everyone taking out the time to read these posts.

ag.