XL2000: Opening Workbook with More Than 1,370 External Links May Crash

If you open an Excel workbook that contains links to other files, the workbook may seem to start to open and then disappear, or you may receive an error message similar to one of the following, and Microsoft Excel stops responding.

In Microsoft Windows 95/98

If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to the following:

When you click Close, Microsoft Excel quits.

In Microsoft Windows 2000

This problem occurs when the workbook contains external links to more than approximately 1,370 workbooks.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.