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XL2000: Copying and Pasting Special Text Freezes Excel Sessions

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This article was previously published under Q282929

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Symptoms

If you copy and paste data from one session of Excel to another, the sessions freeze and CPU kernel time is about 100% utilization.

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Resolution

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:
276367� OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later: 
   Date         Time    Version    Size       File name     
   -------------------------------------------------------
   16-Feb-2001  18:24              2,896,089  Mso9_admin.cab
   16-Feb-2001  10:08                611,797  Mso9.cab
After the hotfix is installed, the English version of this fix will have the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. 
   Date          Time   Version         Size       File name     
   -------------------------------------------------------
   16-Feb-2001   02:49  9.0.0.5014      5,595,185  Mso9.dll

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Status

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).

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Keywords: KB282929, kboffice2000sp3fix, kboffice2000presp3fix, kbfix, kbbug

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Article Info
Article ID : 282929
Revision : 4
Created on : 11/6/2003
Published on : 11/6/2003
Exists online : False
Views : 215