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# Microsoft Office Accounting Professional crashes with custom invoice
- URL: https://blog.tsd.digital/microsoft-office-accounting-professional-crashes-with-custom-invoice/
- Published: 2008-12-01T13:53:59.000Z
- Updated: 2008-12-01T13:53:59.000Z
- Author: Tim Gaunt
- Tags: Business, Office, The Site Doctor, #Import 2025-04-01 05:37

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We've had an irritating issue recently with our accounting system, when creating the custom invoices.

Basically, every time we tried to create a custom invoice with Microsoft Office Accounting the entire application would crash for no obvious reason.

Checking the exception's stack trace it would talk about get\_item which lead me down one path but the answer was actually (and irritatingly) more simple than that -we had a couple of merged cells in the footer of the totals table. Silly I know but it made all the difference!

So if you're getting a crash with Microsoft Office Accounting when creating your invoices, check for merged cells first!