Microsoft KB Archive/186093

= PRJ98: Project Crashes When You Paste Tasks or Resources =

Article ID: 186093

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q186093



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project 98, when you paste tasks or resources in a project, you may receive one of the following error messages.

In Windows 95
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

When you click Details, you receive the following error message:

WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at.

In Windows NT
An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

WINPROJ.EXE

Exception: access violation, Address:.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

The project contains close to the limit of about 7,500 individually formatted cells, or 3,500 individually formatted task bars.

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You paste tasks that have individually formatted cells or bars. Or, you paste resources that have individually formatted cells.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, paste tasks in a view that does not contain formatted cells or bars. For example, create a new Task Sheet view or Resource Sheet view. To create a new view, follow these steps:


 * 1) On the View menu, click More Views.
 * 2) Click New, and then click OK.
 * 3) In the View Definition in  dialog box, type a Name for the new view, then pick the type of Screen, Table, and Filter you want to use. Click OK.
 * 4) Click Apply.

You can now paste tasks safely, because the new view contains no individual bar or cell formating.



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

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

185102 PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbfix KB186093

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