"Illegal Operation" Closing MS Excel with Section Open in Binder (133316)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office for Windows 95
- Microsoft Excel for Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q133316 SUMMARY
When you close Microsoft Excel while a Microsoft Excel worksheet section
is open in Office Binder, you may receive an Illegal Operation error
message. If you click Details, information similar to the following
appears:
EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at
0137:500eac47.
When you click Close, Microsoft Excel is closed, and the following error
message may appear in Office Binder:
This action cannot be completed because the "Microsoft Excel" program
is busy. Click the appropriate button on the taskbar to activate the
program and correct the problem.
CAUSE
When you use the View Outside command (Section menu) in Binder to open a
Microsoft Excel worksheet section in Microsoft Excel, if you perform
some action on the section in Office Binder, such as delete, hide, or
copy while Microsoft Excel is busy, and you then close Microsoft Excel,
you receive the Illegal Operation error message in Microsoft Excel as
described above.
For example, if you view a Binder worksheet section in Microsoft Excel,
and you press F2 to enter a formula on the worksheet, if you then switch
to Office Binder, and delete the section, you receive the "program is
busy" error message. If you then exit Microsoft Excel, while Binder is
waiting for Microsoft Excel to respond, you may receive the Illegal
Operation error in Microsoft Excel.
WORKAROUND
To avoid this problem when you view a Microsoft Excel worksheet section
outside a Binder, close the worksheet in Microsoft Excel before making
any changes to the section in Office Binder.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
REFERENCES
For more information about adding a document to a Binder, click the
Index tab in Binder Help, type the following text
double-click the selected text and then double-click "Add a new document
to a binder" to go to the "Add A New Document To A Binder" topic.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 8/16/2005 |
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| Keywords: | KB133316 |
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