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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel Crashes When Menu Touched?
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.141539.5285@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 14:15:39 GMT
References: <77@sierra.STANFORD.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
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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.
>
>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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