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From: sanders@parc.xerox.com (Rex Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel Crashes When Menu Touched?
Summary: replace System, not just re-install
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.215041.10319@parc.xerox.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:50:41 GMT
References: <77@sierra.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <77@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> siegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) writes:
>
>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.

I've seen this happen several times.  Don't know the cause, but the fix
is to REMOVE the System file and re-install.  Installing on top of an
existing System doesn't fix the problem.

-- Rex Sanders, Macintosh Support Specialist
   sanders@parc.xerox.com