XL97: Error Changing Order of Option Buttons on a Dialog Sheet

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 97, when you change the tab order or the order of an option button (for example you change Send To Back or Send To Front) on a Microsoft Excel 5.0 style dialog sheet, and then display the dialog sheet; you receive an error, and then Microsoft Excel quits.

In Microsoft Windows 95, you receive the following error:

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at 0137:301203ed.

An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.
EXCEL.exe
Exception: access violation(0xc0000005), Address: 0x301203ed

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use either of the following methods:

• After you change the tab order for the option buttons, save, close, and then reopen the workbook before you display the dialog sheet.


-or-


• After you change the tab order for the option buttons, add an additional option button to the dialog sheet before you display it.
  
  NOTE: After the dialog sheet is displayed, you can delete the additional option button.

STATUS

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

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