

If you don’t have these software, go to the next step.ħ. The next step would be ideally to rebuild your volume header and directory information with a disk maintenance utility such as Drive Genius or DiskWarrior (but they are not free!). Open the Disk Utility program in the Application/Utilities folder, select your hard disk on the left and click on the «Repair permissions» button.Ħ. If Excel still doesn’t work properly, you may try now to repair your disks permissions (it is good to do it frequently anyway). I suggest to test if the specific Excel file that caused the problem on opening works for every free update installed because it may be one of these updates that causes a problem.ĥ.

In order to do so follow these instructions and re-install Office and allow AutoUpdate to bring Office up to date (Excel menu Help/Search for updates).

If Excel still doesn’t work, the problem could that Office has been (re)installed without first being completely removed carefully. Check now if everything works and if yes, you can delete the old user account.Ĥ. Therefore, you should transfer all the User data (the «House» folder) from the old account to the new one with the help of an external hard disk. If it does, it means that the problem is with the original user account, not with Excel neither with OSX. Open a session with this new account and see if Excel works. If Excel still doesn’t work, you may try to create a new administrator user account in OSX. Move to the Recycle Bin the following files:ģ. Click the Back arrow to return to the Library folder, and then open Group Containers. You must back up these folders before deleting them.ģ. Warning: Outlook data will be deleted when you move the three folders mentioned in this step to the Recycle Bin. In the Finder menu, open Library> Containers, move the following files to the Recycle Bin. Display the Library folder (see 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 above).Ģ. Clean Office 2016 and above without uninstalling itġ. Secondly, you have to leave all Office components in their default file locations.Ģ.

Restart your computer, repair permissions (see point 4 below) and see if Excel works. In other words, keep it simple and change your hard disk name if not. Firstly, your hard disk name should not be more than 25 characters long and not have «funny» characters with accent, punctuation or such as « / _ * ’ ( )». Check the Apple Menu «About this Mac» to know your OSX version.ġ. Sometimes, Excel does not work properly, especially when running with Mac OSX (known issues when macros are involved).
