SBFM97: Run-Time Error '13' In Buy vs. Lease Analysis

 Last reviewed: May 27, 1997
Article ID: Q164286
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager 97 for Microsoft Excel 97

SYMPTOMS

When you click Finish in step 3 of the Analyze Buy Versus Lease dialog box, the following error appears: 

   Run-time Error '13'

   Type Mismatch
When you click End, an hourglass appears. The hourglass does not disappear until you quit Microsoft Excel.

Note that you can still use the Microsoft Excel menus even though the pointer is an hourglass shape.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

  • You click What-If Wizard on the Accounting menu and run the Buy vs. Lease analysis.

    -and-

  • The values you type for "Length of Loan, Years" and "Payments per year" are both the value 1.

NOTE: This problem occurs in both the U.S. English and Canadian language versions.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use a value that is greater than 1 for either (or both) of the values for "Length of Loan, Years" or "Payments per Year."

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in the updated versions of the Quickbooks driver and Msapp.dll.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library: 

 ~ Sbfm97qb.exe (size: 380364 bytes)
For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from
               Online Services

Additional query words: 97 XL97 sbfm
Keywords : xladdins xlsbfm kbtool
Version : 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kberrmsg

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Last reviewed: May 27, 1997
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