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But just a gut feeling--I would expect the problem to be in excel (or the workbook) than the update to windows. (But that's just a gut feeling.) CLR wrote: Thanks for the comment Dave. I share your concern. In this instance tho, there were only 20-30 CommentBoxes (out of 16000 rows by 25 columns), and all in that one column.....but maybe that was enough to mess up 97......maybe I'll try deleting them one at a time and see how many it does take........ Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Dave Peterson" wrote: I had a worksheet that got corrupted a longggg time ago (xl97, IIRC). That worksheet had a ton of comments and was formatted like a ransom note! I always had a gut feeling that it was all the comments that contributed to the corruption. My guess is that xl97 doesn't handle worksheets with lots of comments in them very well. I use xl2003 now, but still try not to use a lot of comments. CLR wrote: Hi Jim...........thanks for the thought, but my IE is still 6.0 on this machine, so that wasn't it. For the record tho, I was able to successfully run the process on XL2000 (which machine also got the upgrade).......also noticed that the process worked fine in 97 if I deleted the CommentBoxes out of one of the columns......but 2000 and 2002 work fine with them in place. Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Jim Cone" wrote: Hi Chuck, I saw a post ( I know not where) in the last day or so that blamed an XL97 crash on the installation of IE7. Perchance is that what the upgrade was on your system? Regards, Jim Cone San Francisco, USA http://www.officeletter.com/blink/specialsort.html "CLR" wrote in message Hi All......... I wrote a program a couple of years ago that has worked fine ever since, till today. Today MIS blessed all of us with an unannounced "Windows Upgrade", (WinXP) that took over our computers and demanded a re-boot or would not function any further until we did. Once taking the "upgrade", it took 2-3 re-boots to get back to normal. Then, when re-opening the Excel Program, the AutoFilter function started acting up. The database is 16000 rows and about 25 columns. The procedure is.....First filter on a dropdown from the column C arrow, then on one from the column G arrow, and then delete one row.....then try to filter on a different selection from column G and Excel freezes up. Does not work from there on. Before today, this procedure worked fine. Doing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and trying to "EndTask", shows two instances of Excel in the window......non-responding, even tho we only had one running. This all in XL97, the same on two different computers.......when I tired the same thing with the same file in XL2002 from the same network directory, all worked fine. The problem appears to have affected XL97 but not XL2002, and apparently was not related to the file as such......have not tired with XL2000 yet. Anybody run across anything like this yet? If so, any fixes........... Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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