Failed to launch server application

Nope, thought of that. And, Excel isn't on the server, it runs local. Must be a setting? Can't think of one though.

Richard

I would guess that it is having trouble connecting to Excel. Maybe you have excel opened and it has an error window of some sort.

I've seen it here also, but always attributed it to a PDM/network hiccup or something. I'm on SW2005 SP0.1 & Excel 2003.

WT

No it doesn't mean that it is a server application in the sense you are thinking. As I understand it is an outside app serving the app it was called from.

Check your taskmanager for Excel.exe on the processes tab.

I got a similar error trying to call Solidworks and autocad from excel today. Shutting them down completely and making sure there were no remnant processes made it work again. In your case making sure Excel isn't running. I don't know what would be causing it to loose excel though. What version of SW and Excel are you running.

Corey

It could just be a hiccup. We've had torrential rains here over the last two days, and this morning the network was down. There are no instances of Excel running in the task manager, so I'll try it again in the morning.

Richard

Sometimes updating Microsoft Office to the latest SP fixes the problem.

Mike Wilson

One thing to rule out first is that you don't have script blocking enabled within your anti-virus software.

If you don't want to disable it all together you can add the necesary files to the exclusion list in the anti-virus software.

JP

Thanks everyone for all of the ideas. It now looks like simply a hiccup in our network due to the storms. I've been running all day without a problem.

Richard