Sambouka paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >Something really odd is happening with my M$ Excel V. X. I tried >creating a shortcut of excel on my desktop. when i dragged it, and >tried to launch it, it crashed and gave me an error. I tried >dragging it back in, but it is still crashing. I deleted the >com.microsoft.excel.plist and fixed permission but still, i am >facing the same problem. This is not the case with all the other >application in M$ Office v. X. > > >If anyone can help me out on how to fix it I would appreciate it. > >Thanks :) What was the error? And did you check Console (File-->Open log..., <default browser at CrashReporter>, Crash reporter:select Excel)? And does Excel also crash on launch from Recent Items, in the Apple menu, as well as from its own Icon in the Office folder? ~flipper