Excel: GP Fault Opening Large Number of Text Files

Last reviewed: November 8, 1994
Article ID: Q90074

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 4.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, if you open a large number of text files (over 40), Microsoft Excel may stop responding (hang). In Microsoft Excel for Windows the following message is displayed:

   Excel caused a General Protection Fault in Module EXCEL.EXE

There is currently no workaround for this problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed above. We are researching this problem, and will post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbprb
KBSubcategory:
Additional reference words: 3.0 3.00 4.0 4.00 memory close application
crash quit

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Last reviewed: November 8, 1994
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