PRJ98: Project Stops Responding Updating OLE Links from Word

ID: q184673

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you paste link information from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Project and subsequently add more data to the source in Word, you may receive one of the following error messages in Microsoft Project.

Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the Problem persists, contact the program vendor.
When you click Details, you receive the following error message:
WINPROJ caused an invalid page fault in module WINPROJ.EXE at <address>.

Windows NT

An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

Exception access violation (0xc0000005), Address <address>


CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you have one or more OLE links from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Project and you then add data to the source data in Microsoft Word. When Microsoft Project updates the linked information, you may receive the error message.


WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, if you need to add additional information to the source data of the OLE link in Microsoft Word, follow these steps:

  1. Break the paste link(s) in Microsoft Project:


    1. On the Edit menu, click Links.


    2. Click the link.


    3. Click Break Link.


      4. NOTE: If you have more than one link, you may have to break all of the links to Word.

  2. Modify the source data in Microsoft Word.


  3. Re-create the link by copying the data in Word and paste linking the data back into Microsoft Project.



STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q185102
TITLE : PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1

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Keywords          : kbdta projwin 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: July 14, 1999