XL97: Error Message Appears After You Edit an Embedded File

ID: Q172211

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you click a file that you inserted in a worksheet, the following error message may appear:

   Dr. Watson for Windows NT
   An application error has occurred and an application error log is
   being generated.

   Excel.exe

   Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address 0x77f64b53.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when all of the following conditions are true:

NOTE: This problem occurs only if you are running Excel under Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0.

STATUS

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

REFERENCES

For more information about inserting files, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

   inserting, linked objects

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Insert a linked object or embedded object from an existing file" topic.

Additional query words: XL97

Keywords          : kberrmsg xlgpf 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: November 6, 1998