Microsoft KB Archive/312266

= MacXLX: Excel Quits Unexpectedly After You Drag a Field to a PivotTable Data Area =

Article ID: 312266

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel X for Mac
 * Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac

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This article was previously published under Q312266



SYMPTOMS
When you try to drag a field to the Data area of a PivotTable, Microsoft Excel X for Mac may quit unexpectedly or stop responding (hang).



CAUSE
This behavior occurs if both of the following conditions are true:
 * A field name is 122 characters or longer.

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 * You drag the field name to the Data (or Drop Data Items Here) area of a PivotTable.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, shorten the length of the field name for the data to be used for the PivotTable.



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

Additional query words: mac XLKB XL drop pivot table data place excel XLX OS X hlgpg XL2001 XL2001kb 2001

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB312266

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