Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software developed by
Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. It is part of
Microsoft Office applications and is used by millions of users all over the world.
Microsoft Excel is very useful particularly in commercial area for financial data, data charting, calculating and analyzing of company data like profit and loss, taxes, trends and others. If you are not running
Microsoft Excel under the
cloud version or the
latest desktop version, there is a high possibility that you might be annoyed with the
error message like
Microsoft Excel Has Stopped Working when
closing or
saving an Excel file. Program like Excel is storing important data and we can’t afford take risk for the program failure to corrupt our document file or cause any data loss. Most of the time, Microsoft Excel shall work flawlessly, but if you are still using the old version on the new Windows like Windows 10, chances are high that you might be getting
Microsoft Excel has stopped working error message due to the old version of Excel was never intended to build for the latest version of Windows.
Today, I am going to share a simple trick to
fix this
error message and makes your
Excel running smoothly again. Even if you are still using
old version of Excel, it should work. Here’s how to fix
Microsoft Excel Has Stopped Working error.
Go to the
installation folder of the
Microsoft Excel. Since Excel is part of
Microsoft Office application, you probably can find it under
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\OfficeVersion or
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OfficeVersion. Look for the
file named Excel.exe.
Right-click on
Excel.exe file,
Properties,
Compatibility. Under
Compatibility mode,
check the option
Run this program in compatibility mode for, and select
Windows 7.
Click on
Apply button to apply the changes and click on
OK to close.
Now try to
run your Excel file and you should not be seeing the error message anymore when
closing or saving an Excel file.
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