BUG:GPF Manipulating Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet w/OLE Control

ID: Q137030

4.00 WINDOWS kbole kbbuglist

The information in this article applies to:

Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0
Microsoft Excel version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

A general protection (GP) fault at different addresses in segment 0014 occurs in EXCEL.EXE when closing the Visual Basic environment after manipulating an OLE client control that contains an embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug 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.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add an OLE client control to the form.

3. In the Insert Object dialog box, click Create from File, specify any

   valid .xls file, and click OK.

4. Right-Click the control, and click Open. When Microsoft Excel opens,

   click Exit on the File menu.

5. Right-Click the control, and click Edit. Press the ESC key to deactivate

   the OLE client control.

6. Right-Click the control, and click Open.

7. On the Visual Basic File menu, click Exit. At this point, a GP fault

   occurs in EXCEL.EXE at different offset addresses in segment 0014.

Additional reference words: 4.00 buglist4.00 vb4win vb4all KBCategory: kbole kbbuglist KBSubcategory: IAPOLE

Keywords          : IAPOLE kbbuglist
Version           : 4.00
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: October 5, 1996