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Article #6789Re: Excel Crashes When Menu Touched?
From: Mike Bell
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 14:15
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 14:15
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In article <77@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> siegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) writes:
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>My Mac has decided that every time I touch any menu item in Excel 2.2
>the program will shut down with a message (from Multifinder?)
>
> "The application "Microsoft Excel" has unexpectedly quit (3)"
>
>sometimes followed by the system freezing.
>
>The whole system (an SE/30, 8 MB, 3 HDs,System 6.0.5) has worked fine
>'til now , and nothing new in INITs or the like was loaded recently.
>Have reinstalled complete system from locked 6.0.5 System Tools disks;
>reinstalled complete Excel from locked master disks; given Excel
>double the memory it asks for; given it GateKeeper privileges; done
>all this several times -- still does this.
>
>WriteNow, QUED/M, MicroPhone, Microsoft WORD, all work fine. Excel
>itself opens fine, will obey keyboard equivalents of menu commands
>(Open, Save, Quit, etc.), and accept entries in cells. The Apple menu
>works, the Multifinder icons will shift among applications. But click
>on any Excel menu head and it quits. (If you start up with just the
>Finder, you get a system crash, ID=10).
>
>?????
I have the same problem, using Excel Version 2.2a. I have made numerous
calls to the tech support line, and they insist that 2.2a is the most
recent version, and they have never seen the problem. It happens on 8 out
of 10 of our Macs that are running 6.0.5. At this point, my solution has been
to start using Wingz again.......
Mike Bell
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