Microsoft KB Archive/20297

Excel: Using Precision As Displayed Causes Hang in 1.03 PSS ID Number: Q20297 Article last modified on 11-07-1990 PSS database name: M_eXceL

1.03

MACINTOSH

Summary:

When using Precision As Displayed (the Options menu reads Full Precision when Precision As Displayed is in effect) and any number format except General, values may not update in formulas and reentering formulas will cause the Macintosh to hang.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel version 1.03. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel version 1.04.

To work around the problem in 1.03, choose Full Precision from the Options menu (to turn off Precision As Displayed) and use the ROUND function to get the desired results from formulas.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1990.