XL2000: Excel Quits When Printing to a Printer with a Long Name

When you attempt to print your workbook, Microsoft Excel quits unexpectedly. You receive the following error message, and your workbook is not printed:

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

• You are running Microsoft Windows 2000.
  
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• You print to a printer that has a name longer than 113 characters.

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.