Excel 97 Invalid Page Fault...

[C14]

I created a spreadsheet years ago that has now evolved into a 1.5kb file.

It is pretty simple: a few calculations, some charts and the likes.

I have never had any problems with it until recently: whenever I want to add
row(s) to it, it gives me the following message and crashes.

Can you PLEASE help!

Excel caused an invalid page fault in module MS097.DLL at 0167:306c2669.

Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=306c2669 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0062f8cc EBP=00000001
ECX=000a0000 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=196f
EDX=00009402 ES=016f EDI=00000004 GD=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 73 06 81 fe fe ff 00 00 0f 84 81 00 00 00

Stack dump:
306c261b 01ab93e8 306c261b 00000000 000a0b19 309dd748 00000001
3018d224 000a0b19 00000004 00200000 00200000 3009f6a9 01ab93e8
00000000 3010f4d1

 

[Stephane Rodriguez]

A 1.5kb file sounds more like a corrupt Excel file that didn't save well the
last time. That would explain the crash.

How to repair it? Try to import it in Excel 2003 for instance.