Excel in Safe Mode

**mosmaster39** · April 25th, 2005, 11:16 PM

I forget, how can I start Excel in Safe Mode??

Berg

**hudsonsmith** · April 26th, 2005, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by mosmaster39

I forget, how can I start Excel in Safe Mode??

Berg

Excel does not have a safe mode. What problem are you having or what are you trying to do?

**shamus** · April 26th, 2005, 09:42 AM

With a name like mosmaster39, I think you already know there isn't a safemode for Excel. Your post strikes me as just a shameless pitch for the website you posted.

***DonJ*** · April 26th, 2005, 10:00 AM

Agreed.

Link to website removed.

**Mr T** · April 27th, 2005, 06:13 AM

acctually there is a safe mode for excel, at least for excel 2003, havent tried it on earlier versions. start / run / excel.exe /safe does the trick.

now from what I red in the posts before mine i understand that this wasnt a "real" question, but I wanted to answer anyway....

**shamus** · April 27th, 2005, 06:30 AM

I stand corrected. I just tried that and indeed you can run it in safe mode.

My question is why would you need to? Does it allow you to open corrupted spreadsheets?

**hudsonsmith** · April 27th, 2005, 09:33 AM

I stand corrected as well. Info here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...823931033.aspx

***DonJ*** · April 27th, 2005, 04:28 PM

Interesting.

Basically, that's why the thread was left open, to find an answer.

But again, you would think the individual who asked the question would know these things. But maybe I'm wrong.

**shamus** · April 27th, 2005, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by DonJ

you would think the individual who asked the question would know these things.

That was my take also. I was enlighted to the fact that you could run any Office app in safe mode by holding the Ctrl key and clicking the apps icon...but it still seemed like a pitch for the website.