ID: Q120361
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In Microsoft Excel, you receive a general protection (GP) fault when you drag information in another application to a cell on a worksheet if the worksheet contains an active object.
This behavior occurs only if an object on a Microsoft Excel worksheet is open for in-place editing when you drag information from another application to the worksheet. For example, if you activate a Microsoft Word 6.0 document object on a Microsoft Excel worksheet, and you then drag a task in a Microsoft Project project to a cell on the worksheet, you receive a GP fault. This problem does not occur if an object on a Microsoft Excel worksheet is open in the application that was used to create the object (the client application).
To avoid receiving a GP fault when you drag information in another application to a cell on a Microsoft Excel worksheet, make sure that any objects located on the destination worksheet are not active by selecting any cell on the worksheet before you drag the information to the worksheet.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
You can move data between Microsoft Excel and certain other applications by dragging the data as long as the other application also supports OLE. This method is similar to using the Cut and Paste commands; however, this method does not use the Clipboard.
For an overview of dragging data between applications, choose the Search button in Help and type the following:
dragging, between applications
Keywords : kbinterop kbole kbdta
Version : windows:5.0,5.0c
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprbLast Reviewed: March 27, 1998