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Launch Excel 97 SR 2. On any worksheet, EVEN a blank one, go to row
2841. Merge two cells in that row. (E.g., highlight A2841 and B2841,
and do Ctrl-1 / Alignment tab / Merge). Should you File Save now, all
is OK.
Then, at any other place on the sheet, Insert or Delete (doesn't
matter) a Row or Column (doesn't matter). Then File Save.
As Paul Lynde once said by way of an answer on Hollywood Squares, "I
don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt."
I enter this somewhat obsolete Easter n-EGG-ative into the record, for
those like me who still use Excel 97.
If you get this problem, just un-merge all cells on row 2841 and the
problem goes away.
Also, you can merge cells above or (nuttily) below 2841 to your
heart's content, and there seems to be no problem, as long as row 2841
stays unmerged.
I see only one submission in this group on this problem, made in 1998,
and it wasn't replied to. Search on "2841", "crash" and "integrity".
That submitter was worried--very understandably--what user data Excel
might also be trashing. The bug is so specific that it does sound like
a deliberate, sinister Easter egg. (Does "2841" have meaning to some
disgruntled MS propeller-head?)
But so far, I haven't found any data being trashed. All you lose is
your work since you last saved.
I don't know when MS fixed this GPF, but they must've. On my other PC,
Excel 2002 seems to work OK.
But what about Excel 98, 98.6, 99-1/2 (Just Won't Do), 2000 (Light
Years from Home), or whichever Offices du Jour they've issued since?
Anyone?
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2841. Merge two cells in that row. (E.g., highlight A2841 and B2841,
and do Ctrl-1 / Alignment tab / Merge). Should you File Save now, all
is OK.
Then, at any other place on the sheet, Insert or Delete (doesn't
matter) a Row or Column (doesn't matter). Then File Save.
As Paul Lynde once said by way of an answer on Hollywood Squares, "I
don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt."
I enter this somewhat obsolete Easter n-EGG-ative into the record, for
those like me who still use Excel 97.
If you get this problem, just un-merge all cells on row 2841 and the
problem goes away.
Also, you can merge cells above or (nuttily) below 2841 to your
heart's content, and there seems to be no problem, as long as row 2841
stays unmerged.
I see only one submission in this group on this problem, made in 1998,
and it wasn't replied to. Search on "2841", "crash" and "integrity".
That submitter was worried--very understandably--what user data Excel
might also be trashing. The bug is so specific that it does sound like
a deliberate, sinister Easter egg. (Does "2841" have meaning to some
disgruntled MS propeller-head?)
But so far, I haven't found any data being trashed. All you lose is
your work since you last saved.
I don't know when MS fixed this GPF, but they must've. On my other PC,
Excel 2002 seems to work OK.
But what about Excel 98, 98.6, 99-1/2 (Just Won't Do), 2000 (Light
Years from Home), or whichever Offices du Jour they've issued since?
Anyone?
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