Microsoft KB Archive/264854

= XL97: Format Painter and Date Watch Wizard Cause Excel to Stop Responding =

Article ID: 264854

Article Last Modified on 10/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q264854



SYMPTOMS
When you double-click the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar, and then click another cell, Excel appears to stop responding and you receive the following two error messages:

DateMigration

Run-time error 28

Out of Stack Space.

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DateMigration

Run-time error '1004'

Unable to get the HasFormula property of the Range class.

If you open the Task Manager or the Close Program dialog box (press CTRL+ALT+DEL), Excel appears to be running. If you click End Task to quit Excel, any changes to the currently open workbooks are lost.



CAUSE
This problem occurs if the Date Watch Add-In is enabled.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, hold down ESC. Excel may reappear after a while.



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



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about the Date Migration Wizard, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

176943 XL: Year 2000 Wizards for Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 Available for Download

Additional query words: Run-time error 1004 hang hung crash

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbhotfixserver KB264854

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