Microsoft KB Archive/905207

= Description of the Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: September 6, 2005 =

Article ID: 905207

Article Last Modified on 3/6/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
''Microsoft has released the Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for Microsoft Excel 2002. This article describes the following information about the hotfix package:''


 * The issues that the hotfix package fixes
 * The prerequisites for applying the hotfix package
 * Information about whether you must restart the computer after you apply the hotfix package
 * Information about whether the hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package
 * Information about whether you must make any registry changes to use one or more of the hotfixes in the package
 * The files that the hotfix package contains



INTRODUCTION
This article describes the Excel 2002 issues that are fixed in the Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package that is dated September 6, 2005.

Issues that the hotfix package fixes
The following issue is fixed in this hotfix package:  

905208 Part of a worksheet is missing when you run a VBA macro that uses the ScreenUpdating property to unhide a worksheet after you close the Document Recovery task pane in Excel 2002



This hotfix package also fixes the following issue that was not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:  You open a worksheet in Excel 2002 by using a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro in Microsoft Word. If the VBA macro uses the GetObject function to open the worksheet, you may experience one of the following symptoms:  When you scroll down and then up in the worksheet, incorrect data appears.  The worksheet does not open, and Excel may unexpectedly quit (crash). Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

To see what data this error report contains, click here.

When you view the data in the error report, the report contains an error signature that is similar to the following error signature:   Application name   Application version   Module name   Module version   Offset Excel.exe         10.0.6501.0           Excel.exe     10.0.6501.0      0022bdf3 Additionally, other program versions, module versions, and offsets are possible.  </li></ul>

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Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites
 The optimized version and the full-file version of this hotfix is a post-Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) hotfix. To install this version of the hotfix, you must have Office XP SP3 installed. For more information about Office XP SP3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

832671 Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3

</li> The optimized version of this hotfix requires Microsoft Windows Installer version 2.0 or a later version. For more information about the Windows Installer requirement, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

330537 Office XP updates and patches released after September 2002 may require Windows Installer 2.0

</li> The full-file version of this hotfix is also the administrative version of this hotfix.</li></ul>

Restart information
You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix is not replaced by any other hotfix.

Registry information
You must create or modify a registry key to enable one of the hotfixes that this package contains.

For more information about the registry key, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

905208 Part of a worksheet is missing when you run a VBA macro that uses the ScreenUpdating property to unhide a worksheet after you close the Document Recovery task pane in Excel 2002

Hotfix file information
This hotfix contains only those files that are required to correct the issues that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. <pre class="fixed_text">  Date          Time    Size         File name -  06-Sep-2005   15:57   15,024,128   Excelff.msp (full-file/administrative) 06-Sep-2005  15:56    5,061,632   Excelop.msp (optimized) After you install the hotfix, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. <pre class="fixed_text">  Date          Time    Version       Size        File name -  03-Sep-2005   00:38   10.0.6775.0   9,194,176   Excel.exe Note For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the package.

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