XL5: GPF Editing Word Object Linked to Embedded Word Object

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

If you link information from a Microsoft Word document object embedded in a Microsoft Excel worksheet to another worksheet, one of the following occurs:

• A general protection (GP) fault occurs when you edit this linked information. You also receive a GP fault in Microsoft Word for Windows when you exit Microsoft Windows as a result of this problem.

  -or-

• The linked object is blank, and the following error message appears when you edit this linked object:

        Cannot start the source application for this object
  

  This second symptom occurs if you have used a workbook autotemplate (BOOK.XLT) to create the workbook that contains the linked information.

WORKAROUND

SYMPTOM 1

To link information from an embedded Microsoft Word document object to a worksheet in Microsoft Excel without receiving the GP fault, link the information to the worksheet that contains the embedded object. The error only occurs when information is linked from an embedded Microsoft Word document object on one worksheet to another worksheet.

SYMPTOM 2

When the XLSTART directory contains a workbook autotemplate, you cannot link information from an embedded Microsoft Word document object to a worksheet in Microsoft Excel without receiving the error message above. You can, however, use the Paste option in the Paste Link dialog box, to insert the information as an embedded object, text or a picture.

MORE INFORMATION

When you double-click a Microsoft Word 6.0 Document object that has been embedded in a Microsoft Excel worksheet, the document object is activated and you can edit the information in the document while you are still in Microsoft Excel. When you double-click a Microsoft Word 6.0 document object that has been linked to a worksheet, Microsoft Word is started, and the file is opened and you can edit the information in the document from within Microsoft Word.

REFERENCES

For more information about Embedding New Information In A Microsoft Excel Document, choose the Search button in Help and type:

    embedded objects, creating

   Paste Special command (Edit menu)