Light shading causes charts to crash

Posted by Dave Stimpson on October 04, 1999 2:23 PM

I recently got "into" charting and found that Excel 97 crashed every time during the chart wizard (step 3) with this dump:-

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 0137:3037e7b2.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=3037e7b2 EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00000001 SS=013f ESP=0062d5a4 EBP=0062d5c4
ECX=00000000 DS=013f ESI=0000000c FS=3d27
EDX=00000001 ES=013f EDI=0062efcc GS=312f
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f6 40 4c 10 56 57 0f 84 21 01 00 00 a1 54 35 54
Stack dump:
00000001 00000000 470f85dc 024117d7 e208061c 00000002 00000000 0000000c 0062d628 3037f045 000015c5 00000012 00000000 0000061c 00000000 00000000

I have recently read in a book "Excel Annoyances" (recommended) that there is a known bug in Excel - when the light shading tool is displayed, the chart wizard crashes. It says there is a fix which you can download from Microsft's site, but I can't find it. Anyone know what the URL is for the fix?

Posted by Ivan Moala on October 05, 1999 1:17 AM

Dave
Yes this is a known probelm, which had a work around, but the problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows, Service Release 1, have a look @:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/downloads/DP3059.ASP

Regards

Ivan