GP Fault/Error Type 11 Linking Word Data to Excel Worksheet

• Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.3, 4.2c, 4.3, 4.3c
• Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, version 4.2
• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, when you link multiple Microsoft Word 6.0 Document objects to your worksheet, the following symptoms may occur:

   Windows
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   When you close the linked document in Microsoft Word, you receive a
   general protection (GP) fault.

   Macintosh
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   When you close the linked document in Microsoft Word, you receive the
   following error message:

      Sorry, a system error occurred.
      "Microsoft Word"
      error type 11

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you activate a link on the Microsoft Excel worksheet if the worksheet contains more than two Microsoft Word 6.0 Document object links (or more than three of these links in Windows). This behavior occurs whether the files are saved or not; however, if the worksheet that contains the links is saved, the behavior only occurs if you choose Yes to re-establish the links when you open the worksheet in Microsoft Excel.

This behavior also occurs if your Microsoft Excel worksheet contains links to multiple Microsoft Word documents. That is, the linked data does not have to be contained in a single document.

WORKAROUNDS

To work around this problem, use any of the following methods.

Method 1:   Limit the number of linked Microsoft Word 6.0 Document objects
            on your worksheet to two or fewer (three or fewer in Windows).

Method 2:   Link the Microsoft Word data as Text, instead of as a Microsoft
            Word 6.0 Document object.

Method 3:   Embed the Microsoft Word data in your Microsoft Excel worksheet
            instead of linking the data.

REFERENCES

For an Overview Of Linking And Embedding, choose the Search button in Microsoft Excel Help and type:

    OLE, described