WD97: Screen Flickers Constantly After Pasting Excel Chart

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you paste a Microsoft Excel chart into a Microsoft Word document, the chart resizes constantly, causing the display to flicker. Both programs may stop responding (hang).

CAUSE

This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:

• You create a chart in Excel that contains a text box.
  
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• You clicked the Automatic Size option on the Alignment tab of the Format Text Box dialog box.
  
  -and-



• You copied the Excel chart.
  
  -and-



• You clicked Paste Link in the Paste Special dialog box in Word.

RESOLUTION

To correct this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

To temporarily workaround this problem, remove the Automatic Size option from all text boxes on charts that you want to paste link into Word.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q151261 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2

Additional query words: flickering

Keywords : kbinterop kbdta kbchart
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug