SUMMARY
This article describes the Microsoft Office Excel 2003
issues that are fixed in the Excel 2003 hotfix package that is dated February
29, 2004.
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The following issues are fixed in this hotfix package:
831824 Multilevel subtotals are in the wrong position in Excel 2002 and Excel 2003
835234 Error message when you try to save a workbook that was opened from a mapped drive location in Excel 2003
834681 You may receive "The command you selected is not available from this shortcut" error message when you use the Open dialog box or the Save dialog box in Excel 2003
834521 The FORECAST, STEYX, SLOPE and INTERCEPT functions cause different results in Excel 2003 than in earlier versions of Excel
834520 The RAND function returns negative
numbers in Excel 2003
832334 Excel 2003 stops responding or you receive an error message when you open an XML spreadsheet
834009 The font style of text that is contained in a Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object may change in Word and in PowerPoint
The following issues are also fixed in this hotfix package but
were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
- When you double-click an embedded Excel 2003 Chart in
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to edit the chart in-place, and then click
back into your PowerPoint slide, the aspect ratio of the chart changes (for
example, a pie chart may become oval-shaped) and the font of the text in the
chart changes to a different font.
- When you use a custom list in Excel 2003 on a computer that
has German (Switzerland) regional settings, the custom list may not contain
German values.
- When you delete cells in an Excel 2003 worksheet, and then
press SHIFT+F9 to recalculate the worksheet, Excel may quit
unexpectedly.
- When you use the Range.Calculate method or the Selection.Calculate method in a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro
to update a range of cells in an Excel 2003 worksheet, the cells may not
update. This problem may occur when you open a workbook that contains links to
other data sources and you click Update.
- If you save and close an Excel 2003 workbook that contains
null values from an OLAP cube in the PAGE field of a Pivot Chart, Excel may
quit unexpectedly when you reopen the workbook.
- In an Excel 2003 worksheet, if you insert a hyperlink in a
cell that contains text with a line break, the text that comes after the line
break is deleted.
- When you calculate a range of cells in Excel 2003, some
values may not change or update and you do not receive a message that explains
why the update was not performed. This problem may occur if the range of cells
contains a circular reference.
- When you use a VBA macro to calculate your worksheet, a
custom function from a different worksheet may appear to run.
- When you send an Excel 2003 workbook to another user
account in an e-mail message or store the file on a network share with the
print settings set to print to your mailbox or to a local printer with
specialized settings, these settings may still be in effect for the other
users. If they print the workbook, it may either print to your mailbox (not
theirs), or it may try to print by using certain settings for your local
printer.
- When you programmatically use the Worksheets.Add method to insert a saved worksheet, Excel 2003 may quit
unexpectedly.
- When you open an Excel 2003 workbook that contains many
text boxes, the workbook may open very slowly. This problem may occur when your
zoom settings are not at 100% when you open the workbook.
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Service pack information
This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 1.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003
Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Office 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.
back to the topPrerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this hotfix.
back to the topRestart information
You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this
hotfix.
back to the topHotfix replacement information
This hotfix is replaced by a later hotfix.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
835741
Excel 2003 hotfix package: March 5, 2004
Registry information
You have to create or modify a registry key to activate any
hotfixes that are contained in this package.
For additional
information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
834009
The
font style of text that is contained in a Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object may
change in Word and in PowerPoint
834681 You may receive "The command you selected is not available from this shortcut" error message when you use the Open dialog box or the Save dialog box in Excel 2003
Hotfix file information
This hotfix contains only those files that you must have to
correct the issues that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain all the
files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest
build.
The global version of this hotfix has the file
attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and
times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you
view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the
difference between UTC and local time, use the
Time Zone tab
in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Download information:
Date Time Version Size File name
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29-Feb-2004 17:32 11.0.6113.0 6,193,384 Office2003-kb833855-glb.exe
Microsoft Windows Installer MSP file information:
Date Time Version Size File name
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29-Feb-2004 15:40 3,003,904 Excel-binary-glb.msp (Optimized)
29-Feb-2004 17:06 6,708,224 Excel-fullfile-glb.msp (Full-File/Administrative)
After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this fix has
the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table:
Date Time Version Size File name
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16-Jan-2004 05:40 11.0.6113.0 10,074,304 Excel.exe
Note For more information about installing this hotfix, see the
Readme.txt file that is included in the package.
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