XL97: Page Fault Occurs Pasting Input Cells for a Data Table

ID: Q172212

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you paste information in Microsoft Excel 97, error messages similar to the following may appear.

Microsoft Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, you may receive an error message similar to the following:

Excel caused an invalid page fault in module Excel.exe at 0137:3021354e.

Microsoft Windows NT

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 0x302141b0.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when you do the following:

You select the two cells that are being used as row input cell and column input cell in a two-variable data table and click Cut on the Edit menu.

You paste the cut cells into a different worksheet.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Excel 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

The row and column input cell must refer to a cell on the active worksheet outside of the table range.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q95811 Excel Err Msg: "Input Cell Reference Is Not Valid"

REFERENCES

For more information about data tables, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

data tables, creating

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Create a two-variable data table" topic.

Additional query words: XL97

Keywords : kberrmsg kbdta xlgpf
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug