MS Excel is basically a spreadsheet application which you will find integrated with MS office products. It allows you to arrange the data in an organized form which you will use later on performing various functionalities. Although excel keeps all your essential files safely, sometimes it gets corrupt. Damaged excel application may show abrupt behavior and you may find your crucial excel data inaccessible.

In some situations while you are trying to open a excel workbook, you may have found that the workbook appears to open but all of a sudden disappears thereby giving you the following error message:

"EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”

There are several reasons responsible for the corruption of excel files like improper system shutdown, application malfunctioning, virus attacks, bad sector issues, hardware problems etc. Other possible reasons of this error include problems with your workbook which have external links to about1370 workbooks or severe corruption of your excel workbook. “EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows” error message generally occurs on excel 2000 and may bring you in the verge of loosing your crucial data. You will get this error if the workbook is damaged and you are making attempts to save it on web page.

          

You should get the Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a) version in order to resolve the error. You may also repair your registry if there are some problems in your system registry. Since registry is a complex component of your system, you should avoid modifying it yourself. If these methods prove ineffective in resolving the error, the simplest method is to use an updated backup for restoring your lost data due to the corruption of Excel files. But, if you are not having a backup, you will have to go for third-party Excel repair software. It will help you recover your precious data safely from the damaged workbook. It uses effective scanning techniques for methodically scanning the corrupted excel files and recovering all its objects. These applications are easy to use and do not demand any sound technical skills for operating it