XL5: Menu Bar Flashes with Active Worksheet Object

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

If you activate a Microsoft Excel 5.0 Worksheet object in a document in another application (client), and you switch to a different application, the menu bar flashes when you switch back to the client application.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs for example when you activate a Microsoft Excel 5.0 Worksheet object in a Microsoft Word document, and you press ALT+TAB to switch to the Program Manager, and then press ALT+TAB to switch back to Microsoft Word for Windows.

The behavior occurs because when you activate the Microsoft Excel 5.0 Worksheet object, the menu bar in the client application changes to the Microsoft Excel 5.0 menu bar. When you switch to another application, and then switch back to the client application, the menu bar changes to the default menu bar of the client application, and then changes back to the Microsoft Excel menu bar. This behavior causes the menu "flashing."

Note that this behavior also occurs when you minimize the client application, and then restore or maximize the client application again.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel version 5.0c.

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