WD2000: General Protection Fault Pasting into a Table with Merged Cells Selected

ID: Q220459

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

If you perform a paste operation while a portion of a table is selected that contains merged cells, one of the following error messages may appear.

GPF in module MS09.DLL at 015f:308cfad5

-or-

GPF in module WINWORD.EXE at 015f:300b307b

WORKAROUND

To prevent this error from occurring, do one of the following.

Do not include any merged cells in your selection before you paste into a table.

Place the insertion point in a single cell rather than selecting several cells, a column, or a row when you paste into a table.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Word 2000 includes new functionality that allows you to paste text or objects into multiple cells of a table at one time. Under certain difficult-to-reproduce circumstances, a general protection fault (GPF) occurs if a merged table cell is included in the cells that are to be pasted into. Pasting into the merged cells themselves will let you work around this problem.

Additional query words:


Keywords          : kbdta kbtable wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999