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Success! With all due respect to Mr. kaljukass, I always believe there is a solution lurking out there somewhere. To paraphrase General George S. Patton, "Anything made by man, can be overcome by man." I've actually tried this solution a few days ago, but it didn't work. Admittedly, this is mostly because I missed Step 8. Doing this kind of work at 2 AM generally leads to mistakes. Additionally, Ruchi Bisht's solution (shown below) left out a few steps that I added to clarify the process. One other thing is that I found is that I kept getting various Permission Denied messages, but apparently opening regedit as Administrator allowed me to make the changes anyway. Thanks to you (submix8c) and all who responded, Bill Fixing "stdole32.tlb file missing" error for Excel 2007 (edited). First, BACKUP your registry! 1. Go to start > run > regedit 2. Navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > Excel.Chart.8 3. Right Click on key and select Permissions 4. In the Permission windows > Click on Add option and type "everyone" in the name box and click ok. Added: When adding "everyone", click on Check Names to be sure its correct. Added: Check Full Control before you go to Advanced. 5. Once this is done highlight everyone in list and Click on the Advanced Tab > Owner > Highlight Everyone > Click on Apply and Ok. Correction: Before going to Advanced Tab > Owner, clicking on the Advanced Tab, you'll be on the Permissions page. Select "Everyone" then click on Edit. Check the Full Control box, then click OK. Then, go to the Owner tab, click on Apply and OK. 6. In the Permission > Select Everyone > enable the check box for Full Control and Read, then Click on Apply and Ok See correction above. 7. Click on F5 to refresh, this should create a new Sub key below Excel.Chart.8 called Protocol > Right Click on the key and repeat step 3 – 5. 8. Refresh again [F5] and follow the same sequence of steps to add permission to the following Sub keys StdFileEditing > Server. Note: Use the same Step 3-5 process for both StdFileEditing and subkey Server. 9. Close the registry editor.

Hi jaclaz, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried both the "solutions" you mentioned (and many others) and it made no difference. You are correct in that stdole32.tlb is on the system, but it's anyone's guess what app installed it (or when). The only tell-tail is the file date of 6/10/2009, if that helps at all, but probably not. I'm assuming that the "Trusted Installer" is from MS, but that's just a SWAG. As for uninstalling, i've used "WindowsInstall Clean Up", "Revo Uninstaller", among others, as well as MS's MicrosoftFixit solutions. I also followed the Manual Uninstall instructions from MS (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218). I've Un/Reinstalled Office about 6 times, all with the same/similar results. On the last itteration, Word came up with the Startup screen a few times, but stopped. As I mentioned, the other Office apps run fine, just Excel give me trouble. Two additional "solutions" I read about is to install Office 2007 SP1 (I currently have SP3 installed). The other one is to used a Vista version of stdole32.tlb in place of what's on my system. My laptop is running Vista, so that may be worth a try too. Running out of options. Thanks, Bill P.S. Is there a spell checker on this system?

Hello, Hopefully, this thread isn't dead. As it seems to be a common issue with Office 2007, I too have the same issue but under slightly different circumstances. I'm moving Office 2007 Pro from my wife's XP machine to my Win 7-x64 system. I previously had Office 2003 Pro on my PC, but removed it to go to 2007. I have the same exact issues with Excel always going into a setup mode, and calling out stdole32.tlb as missing, however, it is in fact, properly installed on my system. See below. Note that Word, Power Point, and Publisher (I'm not using Outlook) startup and run without issue. Only Excel give me problems. I've read ad nausium of very many different user's "solutions", and none seem to resolve the issue. I reinstalled 2003 and no change, uninstalled all and nada. I also used "Office 2003 MicrosoftFixit50416.msi" and "Office 2007 MicrosoftFixit50154.msi", sweeped through the registry and removed all instances of Office 2003/2007 with no change. I even activated and logged in as Administrator, and still the same Excel stdole32.tlb/Startup issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill Walch