1) First, I made sure nothing was corrupted in Office by reinstalling it from the CD (although, the re-install said that it could not install something related to html. This did not affect me, though)

2) I noticed that I only had this problem with one worksheet, in particular, that had many worksheets within it (ie. I did not get this error message if I created a new worksheet, and then tried to open it).

3) So, I created a new worksheet, and migrated worksheets from my original, one by one, to the new worksheet (saving, opening, and closing both worksheets after I made a change), until I found a worksheet that caused the problem (ie. I could now open my original without the error, after I moved one of the worksheets out, and the othe worksheet had the error).

4) So, now the problem worksheet was in a different, separate worksheet.

5) I created a blank worksheet within my original.

6) I transferred the data back (copy and pasted) from the one causing the problem, to the original.

7) I think that is what fixed it, but I also noticed that under Insert / Name / Define, many of my Go To macros pointed to outdated range definitions, and referenced other worksheets, so I also deleted all of those also. The probably wouldn’t have been a cause of the problem, though, as they only do something when you click on them. I deleted them anyway, though, because they were sloppy and inaccurate.

8) Conclusion: When you go to Tools / Macros / Macros – I find that the problem worksheet does not have any macros in it. I think the problem has to do with the part of the error message that says a problem could result from the use of templates – which means copying and pasting a worksheet, on which to do updates, which I did.

everyone is learning from everyone.

maybe that’s one of the problem they shd have fixed it, but maybe there are really some reason for that.

yah… hurt ego, that might be a reason for ppl who held themselves highly, Bill Gates & co.?

Fixed it.