OFF: Worksheet Is Not Completely Redrawn After Deleting a Sheet

• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, versions 4.2, 4.2.1
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

If you delete a worksheet in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed at the beginning of this article, the active worksheet may be redrawn very poorly. For example, gridlines, row and column headers, and the cell outline may not appear on the screen.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:

• You copy a range of cells in a Microsoft Excel worksheet, switch to Microsoft Word, and link to the cells by clicking Paste Special on the Edit menu and clicking Paste Link.

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• In Microsoft Excel, you delete the worksheet that contains the cells that you copied and pasted into Microsoft Word.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, click a different worksheet. After you do this, the problem no longer occurs.

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.