What To Do If Excel Is Not Responding

Here are the steps to recover a file which is not yet saved by you. First of all, go to File tab and click on “Open”. Now, click on “Recent Workbooks”. After that, scroll to the end and click on “ Recover Unsaved Workbooks”. If your MS Excel is not responding after the update of Windows 10 or your spreadsheet is stuck, try to run Excel into safe mode. To do so follow the steps given below: Press Windows + R key. Open Microsoft Excel. Click on File tab Options and select Add-ins. At the bottom of the window, select COM Add-ins click GO. Here, deselect all the active Add-ins and click Ok. After disabling Add-Ins, restart Microsoft Excel and see if the problem of Microsoft Excel Not Responding is now fixed. In case the problem is fixed, try to isolate the particular Add-in that is causing problems by disabling the Add-Ins one by one. Particular Microsoft Excel File Not Responding.

Problem: When you open or launch Microsoft Office Program such as Excel, Word or Outlook, it show not responding error, “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly” error, crashes, hangs, stopped working or freezes.

Solution: Start Microsoft Office 365 products in safe mode and disabling third party COM add-ins

Step 1: Start Microsoft Office program in safe mode by pressing and holding Ctrl while you start the program or by using “/safe” (that is, excel.exe /safe) option when you start the program from command line.

Step 2: If the issue is resolved, click File > Options > Add-ins.

Step 3: Select COM Add-ins and click Go.

Step 4: Clear all the check boxes in the list and click OK.

Step 5: Close and restart Program.

Excel Safe Mode

Step 6: If the issue does not occur after disabling the COM add-ins, try start enabling the add-ins one at a time until the issues occurs. This will allow you to figure out which add-in is causing the problem.

If above mentioned method unable to resolve the issue, please try other alternative as below:

1. Install the latest Windows Update can often correct problems by replacing out-of-date files and fixing vulnerabilities.

2. Check to make sure Excel is not in use by another process

3. Repair Microsoft Office application programs

4. Check to see if your antivirus software is up-to-date or conflicting with Excel

5. Change Default Printer by assigning Microsoft XPS Document Writer as default printer