That's exactly what it was!!!

I took the easy road, uninstalled Adobe Acrobat, reinstalled. Then
everything was working!

Thanks so very much!



On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:04:05 -0500, Dave Peterson
<petersod@verizonXSPAM.net> wrote:

>Take a look here:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307410
>OFF: "Compile Error in Hidden Module" Error Message When You Start
> Word or Excel
>
>It points at PDFMaker.xla as being the culprit.
>
>If you move/delete that addin, you should be ok.
>
>spondee wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how this happened. Been using Office 2003 for a couple
>> of years now under xp home. But am always d/l and installing new
>> stuff, etc.
>>
>> When I try to open excel or word I get error messages ie
>> Microsoft Visual Basic: auto exec or auto exec new, etc.
>>
>> When I click on info on how to fix this, I get notice that 'project'
>> is protected. (Must Be VB, I don't have office files 'protected'.),
>> to unprotect.
>>
>> I've tried 'detect & repair. I've searched Knowledge, I've tried to
>> find Microsoft Visual Basic to delete. All to no avail.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fix this?