XL97: MS Excel Does Not Resume Calculation After Halting

Microsoft Excel 97 stops calculating formulas in a workbook even though you are using automatic calculation. Microsoft Excel 97 fails to resume calculating formulas after a few seconds of inactivity.

This problem may occur when you perform one of the following actions while Microsoft Excel is recalculating formulas:

• You select a cell or a range of cells. -or-
  
  
• You switch to a different worksheet. -or-
  
  
• You switch to a different workbook. -or-
  
  
• You click a menu item. -or-
  
  
• You click a toolbar button. -or-
  
  
• You move or resize a window. -or-
  
  
• You start the Microsoft Office Assistant.

To correct this problem, install Microsoft Excel 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1).

To work around this problem, press F9 and resume calculation.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel 97 SR-1.

For additional information about SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For more information about calculating workbooks, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text and then double-click the selected text to go to the "About calculation in workbooks" topic.