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In Microsoft Excel, you receive a general protection (GP) fault when you open a worksheet that has been saved in the Microsoft Excel 3.0 Worksheet or 4.0 Worksheet format if the worksheet contains a cell that refers to a named 3-D range on another workbook and follows a cell that refers to a cell that is included in that named 3-D range.
To work around this problem, do any of the following:
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A 3-D reference is one that spans two or more sheets in a workbook. For example, to sum the range A1:B2 on Sheet1 and Sheet2 in a workbook, use the following formula:
=SUM(Sheet1:Sheet2!$A$1:$B$2)
If you save a worksheet that contains 3-D a reference to the workbook
containing it in Microsoft Excel 3.0 or 4.0 Worksheet format, you receive
the following error message
Cannot write record.
Continue reporting each error?
followed by:
Total number of file errors: 1
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0.
For more information about Defining A Name With A 3-D Reference, choose the Search button in Help and type:
3-D references
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Version : 5.00
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Last Reviewed: September 14, 1996