Article ID: 841366
Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
SUMMARY
This article describes the Microsoft Excel 2002 issues that are fixed in the Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package that is dated May 13, 2004.
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Issues that are fixed in the hotfix package
The following issue is fixed in this hotfix package:
842305 Recalculation of cell range takes longer than expected in Excel 2002
The following issue is also fixed in this hotfix package, but was not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
- After you make a change to your Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro, and then recalculate a range of cells in your Excel 2002 workbook, the result of the formula may appear with the following error message:
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Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.
To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.
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Prerequisites
- The optimized version of this hotfix is a post-Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Office XP SP3 installed.
For additional information about Office XP SP3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:832671 Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
- The optimized version of this hotfix requires Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 or later.
For additional information about the Windows Installer requirement, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:330537 OFFXP: Office XP updates and patches released after September 2002 may require Windows Installer 2.0
- The full-file version of this hotfix is also the administrative version of this hotfix. You can install this version of the hotfix with Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). However, Microsoft has not tested this fix on Office XP SP2 to the same extent as on Office XP Service Pack 3. If you install this hotfix on a computer with Office XP SP2 installed, some file conflicts might occur. Microsoft supports this configuration, but we do not recommend this configuration..
Restart information
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.
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Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix is replaced by a later hotfix.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
843197 Description of the Excel 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: June 11, 2004
Registry information
You must create or modify a registry key to use one of the hotfixes that is contained in this package.
For additional information about the registry key, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
842305 Recalculation of cell range takes longer than expected in Excel 2002
Hotfix file information
This hotfix contains only those files that you must have to correct the issues that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.
The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Date Time Size File name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13-May-2004 20:28 16,577,024 Excelff.msp (Full-File/Administrative) 13-May-2004 19:12 2,435,072 Excelop.msp (Optimized)
After you install the hotfix, the global version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table:
Date Time Version Size File name ----------------------------------------------------- 07-May-2004 19:56 10.0.6714.0 9,190,080 Excel.exe
Note For more information about installing this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the package.
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REFERENCES
For additional information about the terminology that Microsoft uses when correcting software after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates
Additional query words: xl2002
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