XL97: Error Message Appears After You Edit an Embedded File

Last reviewed: January 7, 1998
Article ID: Q172211

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you click a file that you inserted in a worksheet, the following error message may appear:

   Dr. Watson for Windows NT
   An application error has occurred and an application error log is
   being generated.

   Excel.exe

   Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address 0x77f64b53.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when all of the following conditions are true:

You insert a file in a Microsoft Excel worksheet.
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When you insert the file, you click Link To File in the Object dialog box.
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After you insert the file, you double-click it and make changes in it.
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When you close the file, you click No when you are prompted to save changes.
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You double-click the inserted file a second time.

NOTE: This problem occurs only if you are running Excel under Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0.

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 inserting files, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

   inserting, linked objects

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Insert a linked object or embedded object from an existing file" topic.

Additional query words: XL97
Keywords : xlgpf kberrmsg
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug

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Last reviewed: January 7, 1998
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