XL7: Incomplete Text Displayed in Conflict Resolution Dialog

• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, when you save a shared file, the information that appears in the "Your Changes" box or the "Conflicting Changes" box in the Conflict Resolution dialog box may be incomplete.

CAUSE

When you save a shared file, the Conflict Resolution dialog box appears if another user has saved changes to the same file that conflict with the changes you have made. This dialog box displays both the change you made, and the conflicting change, and allows you to select which change you want to keep in the file. However, when you make a change to a cell in a shared file that conflicts with a change that another user has saved to the same file, the information displayed in the Conflict Resolution dialog box is incomplete if the conflicting cell contains close to the maximum number of characters allowed in a cell (256).

For example, if you enter 256 characters in a cell in a shared file, and your change to this cell conflicts with the change that another user made to the same cell, when you save the file, the "Your Changes" box in the Conflict Resolution dialog box does not display the entire contents of the cell. Additionally, there is no indication that the text displayed in the "Your Changes" box is not the complete text in the cell. For example, there is no ellipses character following the last character in the box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For more information about creating a shared list in Microsoft Excel, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

   shared lists