Article ID: 172212
Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q172212
SYMPTOMS
When you paste information in Microsoft Excel 97, you may receive one of the following error messages.
Microsoft Windows 95
If you click Details, you may receive an error message similar to the following:
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
When you click OK, Excel quits.
CAUSE
This problem may occur when you do the following:
- You select the two cells that are being used as row input cell and column input cell in a two-variable data table and click Cut on the Edit menu. -and-
- You paste the cut cells into a different worksheet.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Excel 2000.
MORE INFORMATION
The row and column input cell must refer to a cell on the active worksheet outside of the table range.
For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
95811 Excel Err Msg: "Input Cell Reference Is Not Valid"
REFERENCES
For more information about data tables, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text
data tables, creating
and then double-click the selected text to go to the Create a two-variable data table topic.
Additional query words: XL97
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