XL97: Keyboard Input for RichTextBox Is Entered in a Cell

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 97, if you try to type in a RichTextBox control, the text may appear in a cell on the worksheet.

CAUSE

You may experience this problem if the following conditions are true:

• You are using the RichTextBox control, version 1.0.2922, that ships with Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0.


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• You place the RichTextBox control on a worksheet.


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• You try to type directly in the RichTextBox control.

WORKAROUND

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The controls that are installed with Microsoft Excel 97 are the only ActiveX controls that are fully tested and supported for use with Microsoft Excel 97.

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

Q165450 XL97: Error Inserting ActiveX Object in a Worksheet

Q168392 OFF97: Limitations of ActiveX Control Support in Office Documents

REFERENCES

For more information the about RichTextBox control, click the Index tab in Visual Basic Help, type the following text

RichTextBox Control

Additional query words: XL97 ActiveX richtext ocx

Keywords : kbdta xlui KbVBA
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb