XL2000: Format Painter Causes Excel to Stop Responding If Date Watch Add-in Is Enabled

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This article was previously published under Q264658

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SYMPTOMS

When you double-click the Format Painter button, Excel stops responding, and you may receive either of the following error messages:

DateMigration:
Run-time error 28
Out of Stack Space

-or-

DateMigration:
Run-time error '-2147417848(80010108)':
Method '~' of object '~' failed

followed by

DateMigration:
Run-time error '1004'
Unable to get the HasFormula property of the Range class

After Excel stops responding, you must end the Excel task in the Microsoft Windows Task Manager.

If you received the "Out of Stack Space" error message, Excel then prompts you to save changes in unsaved workbooks.

If you received the two other error messages, any unsaved changes to the workbooks are lost.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276367/EN-US/ ) OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack

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CAUSE

This problem occurs if you double-click the Format Painter button while the Date Watch add-in is enabled.

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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. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 2.

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