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From: jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel Crashes When Menu Touched?
Message-ID: <9437@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 23 Jan 91 04:46:45 GMT
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Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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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 remember that Excel 1.0 did not like AltWDEF and used to freeze on
windows being displayed. Version 2.0 eliminated this problem, perhaps it
mystically reappeared in a new form in Excel 2.2!

Check your inits, Microsoft is really driving Macs to their limits,
so I would not be surprised if it crashed with one of the Inits
while other applications would not.

Jacob