Article ID: 248201
Article Last Modified on 11/5/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q248201
SYMPTOMS
If you open an Excel workbook that contains links to other files, the workbook may seem to start to open and then disappear, or you may receive an error message similar to one of the following, and Microsoft Excel stops responding.
In Microsoft Windows 95/98
If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to the following:
When you click Close, Microsoft Excel quits.
In Microsoft Windows 2000
CAUSE
This problem occurs when the workbook contains external links to more than approximately 1,370 workbooks.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).
To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)
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 Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.
Additional query words: XL2000 crash crashes crashing crashed quit quitting quits fail fails failing failed break
Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB248201