Article ID: 190248
Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q190248
SYMPTOMS
You may receive the following error message when you try to open a file in Microsoft Excel 97:
CAUSE
This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:
- You copy and paste the contents of a cell from one instance of Excel to a second instance of Excel. -and-
- You perform the paste operation multiple times. -and-
- The cell that you copied contains more than 2000 characters. -and-
- You make an entry in another cell on the worksheet.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).
For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
151261 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2
Additional query words: XL97
Keywords: kberrmsg kbbug kbfix KB190248
