Excel 2007 hangs/freeze when copy & paste
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I have a user that woks a lot with Excel and Powepoint 2007. She usually has several Powerpoint and Excel files open simultaneously and copy & paste pictures, graphs and text between those two programs.
What happen is that after a short while both Powerpoint and Excel freezes and you can do nothing but closed the programs with taskmanager and all work goes lost.
I think the problem is isolated to the Office Program because she was having this problem with an old PC and now she got a new one (corei5 2GB ddr3) and the problem is exactly the same.
The files she works with are both ppt/pptx and xls/xlsx if that has to do with it. I don't know what to check I don't find any obvious reason, she has Office 2007 SP2 on a XP SP3
I have a user that woks a lot with Excel and Powepoint 2007. She usually has several Powerpoint and Excel files open simultaneously and copy & paste pictures, graphs and text between those two programs.
What happen is that after a short while both Powerpoint and Excel freezes and you can do nothing but closed the programs with taskmanager and all work goes lost.
I think the problem is isolated to the Office Program because she was having this problem with an old PC and now she got a new one (corei5 2GB ddr3) and the problem is exactly the same.
The files she works with are both ppt/pptx and xls/xlsx if that has to do with it. I don't know what to check I don't find any obvious reason, she has Office 2007 SP2 on a XP SP3
ProfessorBindokas
Just a quick question - since the PC only has 2GB RAM, what is the processor load and memory usage at the time the programs freeze up? Is it maxed out? That's my first thought if she has several large files open and is copying across big graphics.
ASKER
No, there is no load on the pc, not maxed out anyway.
>> What happen is that after a short while both Powerpoint and Excel freezes and you can do nothing but closed the programs with taskmanager and all work goes lost.
Not a solution to the core issue, but after each copy and paste to PPT, hit Ctrl-S to save the PPT file, so the changes up to that point don't get lost when the app crashes.
use Ctrl-S as often as you can. It can't do any harm.
Not a solution to the core issue, but after each copy and paste to PPT, hit Ctrl-S to save the PPT file, so the changes up to that point don't get lost when the app crashes.
use Ctrl-S as often as you can. It can't do any harm.
ASKER
thanks, but she's already doing that, in fact she has the autosave on to save quite often.
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I think installing KB 981047 and the updated oart.dll from KB 2028572 did it.
Glad to hear it!