OFF95: "Illegal Operation" When You Paste Link Long Path
Article ID: 138078
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q138078
SYMPTOMS
If you try to use the Paste Link command to link an object from a Microsoft
Word document to a Microsoft Excel document, and if the link path and file
name to the Word document have a total of 229 characters or more, you
receive the following error message:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut
down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
Your only option then is to click Close and quit Microsoft Excel. You lose
any unsaved changes.
You may also receive this error message if the link path and file name
contain 228 characters. You may receive the illegal operation error message
or you may receive the following message:
Unable to Paste Link.
WORKAROUND
Shorten the name of the Microsoft Word document so that the length of the
path and file name combined does not exceed 227 characters.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
Additional query words: file name
Keywords: KB138078