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EXCEL 7 hangs when using pivot tables and other external data sources

I have found Excel hanging a lot when doing something with pivot tables or external data sources. This happended today and so I killed Excel on doing so the application error reporting kicked in, I reported the error and was taken to a KB article about the "Information Bridge Framework" and that it doesn't work with .Net 2.0 and Office 2007.

I guess the "Information Bridge" is used for exchanging data between applications, in which case most people using Excel and the data components will be using it.

Suprisingly its requires a hotfix that you need to get hold of from MS support. Whats the quickest way to get a hotfix?



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Published 14 April 2007 13:52 by simonsabin
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# Whats the quickest way to get a hotfix?

I just blogged about an incompatibility between Office and the Infromation Bridge Framework which causes