Description of the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: November 7, 2007

List of issues fixed

This hotfix fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• If you try to open a local Excel 2003 workbook and a Web-based Excel 2003 workbook by using a single command-line command, two copies of the local workbook open. The Web-based workbook does not open at all.
• When you copy a range of data from one Excel 2003 workbook into a similarly formatted Excel 2003 workbook, Excel 2003 may stop responding (hang).
  
  This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
  • Two workbooks are open in separate instances of Excel 2003.
  • The second Excel 2003 workbook also has a list on a separate worksheet.
  • This list on the separate worksheet depends on data that is located on a separate worksheet in the same workbook.
• When you try to retrieve real-time data by using the Excel 2003 RTD function, an array, and a custom .dll file, the function fails. Additionally, you receive a "#VALUE" error message.
• In Microsoft Windows Explorer, you locate a text (.txt) file or a comma separated values (.csv) file that uses UDF-8 coding. You right-click the file, point to Open with, and then you click Microsoft Office Excel. In this scenario, Excel 2003 prompts you to use the Import Text wizard to import the text. The Import Text Wizard does not automatically recognize the UDF-8 coding in the file.
  
  This issue does not occur if the file uses UTF-8 coding.
• In the French, Spanish, and Dutch versions of Excel 2003, if you change a link to a file on a SharePoint server to another file on the SharePoint server, Excel 2003 stops responding (hangs).
• When you try to synchronize a list in an Excel 2003 workbook that is based on a list that is located on a SharePoint server, you may receive the following error message:
  Excel cannot connect to the SharePoint list.

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for installing this hotfix package.

Restart information

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix package.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.

Registry information

To use one of the hotfixes in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

File information

This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that are listed in this article.The global version of this hotfix uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

Download informationMicrosoft Windows Installer .msp file informationAfter the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package.