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After you install this security update, you may experience the following issue when you work with Microsoft Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro code:
Symptom
You unprotect a worksheet by using the object model, such as Worksheets("sheet2").Unprotect. If the unprotected worksheet is not the active worksheet, contents from the unprotected worksheet become visible on the current worksheet. This issue continues until there is an action that updates Excel.
To work around this issue, use one of the following workarounds:
Workaround 1
Minimize and then maximize the Excel window to redraw or refresh the Excel worksheet.
Workaround 2
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You can modify the macro code to work around this issue by activating the Excel worksheet before the Unprotect method is run as shown in the following sample code.
Sub Button1_Click()
Dim NowActiveSheet As WorkSheet
Worksheets("sheet2").Protect
Set NowActiveSheet=ActiveSheet
' Activate the Excel sheet before running Unprotect method.
Worksheets("sheet2").Activate
Worksheets("sheet2").Unprotect
NowActiveSheet.Activate
End Sub
Workaround 3
Activate all the worksheets in Excel manually or by using a macro after the issue has occurred.
Non-security-related fixes that are included in this security update
973402
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973402/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Graph-x-none.msp, Xlview-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
974492
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974492/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Graph-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp, Xlview-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
971787
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971787/
)
Description of the 2007 Office system hotfix package (Excel.msp, Xlconv.msp): June 30, 2009
973932
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973932/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
973823
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973823/
)
Conditional formatting rules are duplicated when you copy and then paste cells in Excel 2007
971858
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971858/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel.msp, Graph.msp, Xlconv.msp): June 30, 2009
972577
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972577/
)
When you rotate text in cells in an Excel 2007 document on a Terminal Services client that is running in Monitor Spanning mode, the text appears misaligned, partly or completely invisible, or the AutoFit Column Width function does not work
973933
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973933/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Graph-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
971860
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971860/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel.msp, Graph.msp, Oart.msp, Oartconv.msp, Xlconv.msp): June 30, 2009
974496
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974496/
)
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp, Xlview-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
974487
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974487/
)
Description of the 2007 Office system hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Graph-x-none.msp, Oart-x-none.msp, Oartconv-x-none.msp, Powerpoint-x-none.msp, Pptconv-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp): August 25, 2009
The English (United States) version of this security update has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.
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