WD2000: General Protection Fault Pasting into a Table with Merged Cells Selected

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This article was previously published under Q220459

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SYMPTOMS

If you perform a paste operation while a portion of a table is selected that contains merged cells, one of the following error messages may appear.

GPF in module MSO9.DLL at 015f:308cfad5

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GPF in module WINWORD.EXE at 015f:300b307b

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WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, do one of the following.

Do not include any merged cells in your selection before you paste into a table.
Place the insertion point in a single cell rather than selecting several cells, a column, or a row when you paste into a table.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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Word 2000 includes new functionality that allows you to paste text or objects into multiple cells of a table at one time. Under certain difficult-to-reproduce circumstances, a general protection fault (GPF) occurs if a merged table cell is included in the cells that are to be pasted into. Pasting into the merged cells themselves will let you work around this problem.

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