Article ID: 249030
Article Last Modified on 8/30/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q249030
SYMPTOMS
When you click Yes to update the links on a workbook that you are opening, Microsoft Excel appears to stop responding (hang). After a long wait, the links are updated, and you gain control of the worksheet.
The same workbook may have been updated much more quickly in earlier versions of Excel.
CAUSE
This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
- Your workbook contains a large number of links to one or more Excel workbooks.
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- Many of the linked cells contain formulas that use the VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP functions.
WORKAROUND
To work around the problem, open the supporting file(s) before you open this workbook.
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: XL97 lookup
Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB249030
