XL2000: Access Violation Error Message When You Open a Workbook That Calls a Custom DLL

When you open your workbook, Excel may crash with an access violation or an invalid page fault error message.

This issue occurs when both of the following conditions are true:

• Your worksheet contains a formula that calls a function that is stored in an Excel custom code resource (.xll) or dynamic-link library (.dll) file.
  
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• The function in the .xll or .dll file returns a two-dimensional array that contains 1 item in the first dimension and 0 items in the second dimension (1x0).

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.