Microsoft KB Archive/221052

= XL2000: Excel Stops Responding When You Attempt to Open an Excel 4.0 Workbook =

Article ID: 221052

Article Last Modified on 9/27/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q221052



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to open a Microsoft Excel 4.0 workbook in Microsoft Excel 2000, Excel 2000 may stop responding (hang), and you receive the following error message:

EXCEL.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur when the Excel 4.0 worksheet contains a defined name that refers to itself.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, avoid using recursive names when you define cells and cell ranges.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
You may experience this behavior if your worksheet contains a recursively defined name. For example, if you create the name "TestName" on Sheet1 and define it as =Sheet1!TestName, your worksheet contains a name that refers to itself.

