Article ID: 172639
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q172639
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 97, when you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for
Applications macro or a Microsoft Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro that attempts to
activate a chart object on a worksheet, you may receive the following error
message:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to either of the
following:
EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module MSO97.DLL at
0137:30705766.
EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in module EXCEL.EXE at
0137:301240ec.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if all of the following conditions are true:
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, modify the macro so that it activates the
worksheet that contains the chart object before it attempts to activate the
chart object.
Visual Basic Macro
If you are using a Visual Basic macro, modify the macro so that it contains
code that is similar to the following:
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Activate
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects("Chart 1").Activate
XLM Macro
If you are using an XLM macro, modify the macro so that it contains code
that is similar to the following:
=ACTIVATE("Sheet1")
=UNHIDE("[Book1.xls]Sheet1 Chart 1")
In each example, the first line of code activates the worksheet that
contains the chart object. The second line of code activates the chart
object. If you use this method to activate chart objects, the problem
described in this article does not occur.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
Note that the problem described in this article does not occur when a macro
attempts to activate a chart object that is in the active worksheet. Also,
the problem does not occur if the active worksheet does not contain split
or frozen panes.
Additional query words: XL97 ipf freeze panes 0137:30029835
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