Unspecified but Painfully Frustrating Error. In recent months I have encountered a particularly troublesome error. It occurs in Excel 2. I don’t recall any such cases).

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The error is heralded by an unusually unhelpful error message, even my Microsoft’s standards: Microsoft Visual Basic – System Error & H8. Unspecified error. Pardon my French, but WTF? To rub salt into the wound, this is followed up with an Out of Memory error: Sometimes these occur once, sometimes twice, when Excel is started, when a workbook with code is opened, or when an add- in is opened.

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Association with Ref. Edit Controls. Closer examination sheds some light on the problem.

It seems to be related to our old friend, the Ref. Edit control. If a workbook or add- in has a User. Form with a Ref. Edit, this error may occur. When the error occurs, it may be impossible to view the User. Form in the VB Editor, or if the User. Form can be viewed, any Ref. Edits have been stripped off the form.

User. Forms without Ref. Edit controls can be viewed with no problems. On a computer that experiences the problem, the Ref. Edit library (refedit. VB Editor’s Tools menu,and sometimes it turns up as a MISSING reference in this list. The Ref. Edit library is also not found in the list of Additional Controls which can be added to the VBE’s Controls Toolbox. If the Ref. Edit control had been present on the Controls Toolbox, its place may be taken by a gray square with a tooltip of “Unknown”.

Interestingly enough, the Ref. Edit library is present on the machine, in the Microsoft Office program directory. But the library is apparently not accessible. Autocad 2007 With Crack Fixed Blade.

There have been some recent changes in the Ref. Edit control, I believe on more than one occasion, but I have never documented the changes. There are no outwardly visible differences in the control, but the file size has changed, the file created or modified date has changed, and the file version has changed. History. This famous Unspecified Error, its hex code 8. Visual Basic 6 and probably earlier. It has been blamed on many factors, many of which seem like wild guesses, and most of which are irrelevant to our situation here. There are a lot of instances in which this error occurred in projects which dealt with retrieval of data from data controls or databases (Access, Oracle, SQL Server, and others).

This error has also been associated with ODBC, ADO, IMAP, ASP and IIS, and DLLs from Microsoft (INET and HTML controls) and third parties. I suspect that this is a catch- all error message when there is an internal error in VB, when there is no specific information but the error is somehow associated with various controls or libraries. At least one Microsoft Knowledge Base article discusses this error in the context of Excel.

OFF2. 00. 0: “System Error & H8. Running Macro with User. Form attributes the error to opening a file with a userform that contains a Microsoft Direct. Animation Sprite control (daxctle. Apparently that was the Office 2.

Office 2. 00. 3/2. Ref. Edit control.

Google finds innumerable links to this error in web sites and newsgroups, related to Visual Basic, Office, and recently, Excel. I have spent dozens of hours poring through search results looking unsuccessfully for relief. What makes this problem so much harder to document and troubleshoot is that it does not occur on all computers which have had nominally the same upgrades. One user will be hobbled by this error, while a user in the adjoining cubical will show no signs of it.

I have had substantially identical VMs on the same computer, some with the problem, some immune. Remedies. This problem has surfaced among users of my charting utilities, but usually I’ve been able to fix it. Also, one of my clients has a large Excel add- in package which has experienced this error. So far I think we’ve successfully treated all infections. A few involve chicken’s blood at full moon, but most involve various Windows and Office activities.

Some remedies work some of the time, but what works on one computer may not work on another. Because this problem was sporadic when I first encountered it, I didn’t document the exact steps taken to diagnose and remedy the issue. I’ve generally followed a brute force approach until recently. In mild cases, deleting all files in the user’s temp directory and in the C: \Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Forms directory will clear up the problem. This is all that my main machine needed, but generally it’s like trying to boil the ocean. Reregistering the refedit. I have tried replacing an older version of this library with a newer version from another computer, but I don’t recall this ever having helped.

Lately it seems that almost all cases in Excel 2. Help menu’s Detect and Repair command, so this is my first step in treating the malady. Excel 2. 00. 7 has a similar command deep under the Office Orb (Excel Options > Resources > Run Microsoft Office Diagnostics > Diagnose). I’ve used this command, but it has never given me the same warm fuzzy feeling of a Detect and Repair operation. However, just today an end user ran the diagnostics, and the problem was cleared up. There are a couple preventative measures which seem to make add- ins resistant to the unspecified error. Open the add- in in Excel 2.

Ref. Edit library, compile the code (ignoring compile errors related to new Excel 2. The compile step may not be necessary. I’ve also removed Ref. Edit controls and replaced them in 2. I’ve seen two or three cases in which these last few steps did not seem to work.

But in at least one of these cases, I’m not sure the end user followed instructions and actually ran the Detect and Repair or Diagnostic command. Update 2. 3 June 2. Bob Flanagan has shared a link to his detailed protocols for fixing this and other problems with Office installations at What to do if Excel add- ins do not run. Thanks, Bob. Other Experiences. Have you encountered this problem?

Have you documented it? Have you successfully treated it? If so, I want to hear about it. Please leave a comment with as many details as you can muster.