I'd do a little experiment.

Create a new workbook and copy over that data (essentially recreating the
workbook).

Then test it out there.

My bet is that your workbook (or worksheet) is corrupted. (You may be able to
just recreate that worksheet and save yourself some work.)

If you can find someone with a newer version of excel, you may want to try the
same thing in that version. Each version of excel seems to handle corruption
better (sometimes just differently, though).

In fact, opening the workbook in OpenOffice and saving (a copy??) there may be
able to help.

http://www.openoffice.org, a 60-65 meg download or a CD

James wrote:

I have a user who has a excel spreadsheet 0.5Mb. What they are trying to do
is copy & paste cells columns A to F (rows 1 to 1300) to G to L (rows 1 to
1300) . This copies fine, there are no filters, however there is a bit of
formula but noting unusually out of the ordinary. So once the data has
copied over they select save and get the following error message;
"Excel.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will
need to restart the program. An error log is being generated."

Columns are from A to AO
Rows from 1 to 1300

I have tried on another several other machines but the same error occurs. I
suspect that this is a corrupt spreadsheet as others are ok. If this is a
corrupt excel spreadsheet why do you think this may have happened and how to
prevent it from happening again (also could not find anything on Technet on
this - are there any articles)? If however it can be fixed please please let
me know.

Thanks in advance for you help \ suggestions

James

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Dave Peterson