XL2000: JPN: Excel Quits Unexpectedly If You Delete Data in Cell

If you delete existing data in a cell and then press the TAB key or ENTER, the pointer blinks in a cell, you receive an error message (access violation), and Excel quits unexpectedly.

NOTE: The specific error message that you receive depends upon your operating system.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The Japanese version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date       Time     Version     Size       File name        Platform
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   12/07/2000  11:23p  0.0.0.0000  1,718,956  EXCEL.msp        x86
   12/07/2000  11:50p  0.0.0.0000  4,306,000  EXCEL_Admin.msp  x86
				

After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:

   Date       Time     Version     Size       File name        Platform
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   12/07/2000  12:26a  9.0.0.4806  7,155,757  excel.exe        x86
				

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).