On startup text to speech installation keeps appearing

[Adam]

Dear All

When I load up Excel the dialog box comes up before excel
continues to load saying:

"Text to Speech - This feature is not currently
installed. Would you like to install it now?"

I dont want to install it but this KEEPS coming up, any
ideas?

Thanks

Adam

[Adam]

Someone answer please !!!!!

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[Dave Peterson]

I don't use "text to speech" so this is an uninformed response!

Excel starts things each time you start the program.

There can be addins checked under Tools|addins.
there can be workbooks in your XLStart folder(s).
there can be workbooks in the "alternate startup folder"
aka "at startup, open all files in"
(different versions mean different wording.
Tools|options|general tab is where you'd double check this.)

there can be stuff started via the windows registry.
and you can start stuff based on the command line used when you start excel.

The first thing I'd do is to start excel in Safe mode to see if not starting
stuff fixes the problem.

Close excel
windows Start button
Run
Excel /safe

If no irritating prompt, then you've got some detective work to do.

Keep notes of what you had enabled--so you can put back the non-irritating
stuff.

Turn off all the things in Tools|addins
move everything out of XLStart (search for all XLStart folders).

then open excel, did it appear again?

If no, start adding things back one at a time. When you find the culprit,
move/delete (or even accept that you like it!) the file.

Chip Pearson goes into greater detail at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

You may want to review this, too.

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Dave Peterson
ec3...@msn.com