Microsoft KB Archive/190248

= XL97: Cannot Open File After Pasting More Than 2000 Characters =

Article ID: 190248

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q190248



SYMPTOMS
You may receive the following error message when you try to open a file in Microsoft Excel 97:

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at 015f:300e935b.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:
 * You copy and paste the contents of a cell from one instance of Excel to a second instance of Excel. -and-


 * You perform the paste operation multiple times. -and-


 * The cell that you copied contains more than 2000 characters. -and-


 * You make an entry in another cell on the worksheet.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

151261 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2

Additional query words: XL97

Keywords: kberrmsg kbbug kbfix KB190248

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