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Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

(OP)
In searching around this forum, it looks like there is no known cure for running Excel 2003 with NX7.5 in Win 7
I get an error message "Failed to start new Excel workbook" when I try to edit a parts family file or print out the expressions.
Are there any fixes for this? It worked when I was running NX7.5 on a Vista machine.
Thanks.

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

the problem is not windows 7, it's 64bit windows. excel 2003 is 32bit only and my understanding is that the registry entries aren't there for it to work properly. I've googled and never been able to find what they are.

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32-> NX7.5.4.4, Beta NX8.0.0.23
 

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

(OP)
Strange. I was running Vista on the same 64-bit computer when I did not have a problem.

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

can't remember the wording of the closed PR on this but I think it's not the OS but the fact that NX is 64bit that's the problem. It might be the 32bit version of NX would work (when installed on a 64bit) system.

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32-> NX7.5.4.4, Beta NX8.0.0.23
 

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

(OP)
I have been running 64-bit NX since NX5 on a 64-bit computer with 64-bit Windows for 2 two years.

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

The problem with the installation of Excel 2003 on Windows 7.  It fails to write certain registry values needed by NX to access it.  Our "fix" was to copy the Excel registry values from an installation of Excel 2003 from a WinXP 64-bit system and import them on the Win7 boxes.  The other solution is to go to Excel 2007/2010.

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

(OP)
Do you know, or can you copy what those values were?
That might be a big help.
Thanks.

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

The attached file was posted in another Excel-NX-problem post a while ago. I downloaded it then, in case I couldn't find it again later, but I've never tried it so use at your own risk and back up the target machine's registry first (maybe set a system restore point too, just to be on the safe side).

Best of luck, and I'd be interested to know how it goes.

Cheers,

Jon

JHTH
NX 7.0.1.7 + TC 2007

RE: Excel with NX7.5 in Win7

(OP)
Thanks. I'll give it a try.

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