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XL97: Incorrect Cell Range Selected When Activating Excel Object

Article ID: 147959

Article Last Modified on 9/22/2005


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SYMPTOMS

When you double-click a Microsoft Excel worksheet object to activate it, the incorrect range of cells may be selected.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:

  • You copied a large range of cells in your Excel worksheet. -and-

  • You clicked Paste Special on the Edit menu in the program that will contain the Microsoft Excel worksheet object. -and-

  • You clicked Paste Link in the Paste Special dialog box. -and-

  • You are running Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0.

RESOLUTION

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows.

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