Excel Double Quits on Cut and Paste!

[Jeff Porter]

This one is strange, and is still related to the previous crashing
problem I have had with this workbook on other things.

Excel will crash with this workbook I have open when you try to copy
and paste tables and/or charts out of it into other OLE applications.
It is interesting how it does this. I select the table, do command-C,
then go to Powerpoint, Command-v, then excel will immediately crash
(and tell me so), then the table will appear. Then Excel will reload
itself and the workbook (sort of recover), but I can't do anything yet
in PPT. Excel will then crash AGAIN (telling me so again), and then I
can manipulate the table or chart in PPT with no problems.

I have to then reopen the Excel spreadsheet to do any more work in it.

Anyone see that one?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Jeff,

This one is strange, and is still related to the previous crashing
problem I have had with this workbook on other things.

Excel will crash with this workbook I have open when you try to copy
and paste tables and/or charts out of it into other OLE applications.
It is interesting how it does this. I select the table, do command-C,
then go to Powerpoint, Command-v, then excel will immediately crash
(and tell me so), then the table will appear. Then Excel will reload
itself and the workbook (sort of recover), but I can't do anything yet
in PPT. Excel will then crash AGAIN (telling me so again), and then I
can manipulate the table or chart in PPT with no problems.

I have to then reopen the Excel spreadsheet to do any more work in it.

Well I haven't seen this before, but I've seen things that appeared to
be realted. The first thing I would do is to delete the carbon
registration database:
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Carbon Registration Database (~/ stands
for your user folder).
This files holds the location of all the apps Office uses and tends to
get corrupted from time to time (I've been seeing more and more of these
issues lately). It will be automatically re-created the next time you
launch Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
If your user folder has been relocated on another drive (NetInfo
Manager, Symlink...) then this file gets corrupted every single time you
use it so you have to delete it every single time you want to use OLE
linking or VBA.


Corentin