Microsoft Office Excel 2003 crashes on launch or exit
A couple of days ago I’ve noticed that whenever I was launching any Excel file I was getting an error message like this:
| AppName: excel.exe AppVer: 11.0.6560.0 AppStamp:4296b6f2 ModName: msvcrt.dll ModVer: 7.0.2600.2180 ModStamp:41252c84f Debug:Offset: 00037efb |
And the application event log was registering two events:
Event ID: 1000
Source: Application Error
Type: Error
Description: Faulting application excel.exe, version 11.0.8169.0, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x00037efb.
Event ID: 1000
Source: Microsoft Office 11
Type: Error
Description: The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Office 11 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: excel.exe 11.0.6560.0; 4296b6f2; msvcrt.dll; 7.0.2600.2180; 41252c84; 0; 00037efb.
I’ve tried to Repair office and then even reinstall it but it didn’t help me to resolve the problem.
Solution was to change the “LoadBehavior” DWORD value under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\BtOfficeAddin.BtOfficeIntegration.1 "LoadBehavior"=dword:00000003 "FriendlyName"="Send to Bluetooth"
to 0.

Thanx a lot, solved error with your solution.
Finally found this, great tip! Thanks!
It works for me too…
Thx.
thank you for the hint!
it worked for excel 2003 sp3.
Holy sh’t, I was trying to find a solution for this problem for the last 2 days. (And got awfully frustrated meanwhile.)
Thank you, it finally solved the error. Gotta go ‘n’ sysprep. =)
THANKS! This fixed my problem, too.
very helpful, would have spent days figuring that out otherwise
You’re great thank.
This fixes my problem too.
Thank you very much.
hi anybody have any other suggestions? it did not work for me
i hav eno addins checked, i have deleted the file i was told to delete in the other solutions i also tried value 1 for this reg entry and still crashes all the freaking time.
thanks Microsoft for another crappy product and to my company for forcing me to use this piece of s…!!!!!
Thanks a lot! This fixed my problem, too.
Thanks, it worked for me too after too much time spent in various forums…
Thanks!!!!!! Its fixed my problem too