Excel: GP Fault Opening Large Number of Text Files

ID: Q90074

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 4.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, if you open a large number of text files (over 40), Microsoft Excel may stop responding (hang). In Microsoft Excel for Windows the following message is displayed:

Excel caused a General Protection Fault in Module EXCEL.EXE

There is currently no workaround for this problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed above. We are researching this problem, and will post more information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 3.0 memory close application crash quit


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Last Reviewed: March 29, 1999