Excel Crashes When I Fill Color In Cells

[Patrick B. Leek]

This is the error I get. Is there a fix?

XCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 0187:3009aa90.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=3009aa90 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=018f ESP=0062d634 EBP=0062d844
ECX=00000fe8 DS=018f ESI=0062dd98 FS=5e8f
EDX=0000c000 ES=018f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b7 58 02 83 7d 0c 00 0f 85 92 de 0e 00 c7 45
Stack dump:
00000000 0062dd98 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000014
00001f46 00000000 00000000 00001f46 00000014 0062db0c
3002bef6 bff7e1d9 87683000 0062d724

 

[Rob Bovey]

Hi Patrick,

The following Knowledge Base article seems to describe this problem.
Give it a try and see if it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q285347

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
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[Patrick B. Leek]

Really appreciate the assistance. It
worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now if only someone would quit sending me a worm via e-
mail and the sender actually looks like it came straight
from Microsoft but Norton Anti-virus says it's a blaster
worm.