Whenever there's a *fault* error (including illegal procedure), start by making sure the TEMP directory is empty. Once that issue is ruled out...you can consider other possible problems. Dian Chapman Technical Consultant, Instructor, Microsoft MVP & TechTrax Editor Tutorial web site: http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html TechTrax Ezine: http://www.mousetrax.com/techtrax/ Instructor: http://www.eclecticacademy.com/faculty.htm Word MVP support site: http://www.mvps.org/word Microsoft support groups: http://support.microsoft.com -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Teresa Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 5:58 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Excel won't print A friend of mine is having trouble with his Excel program. He says it will do everything but print. When he tries to print, he gets this error message: THIS PROGRAM HAS PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION, AND WILL BE SHUT DOWN Any ideas other than uninstalling and reinstalling? Teresa If you must burn our flag, please wrap yourself in it first. If you must burn our flag, please wrap yourself in it first. ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************