[Issue 125006] Calc Consistently crashing, usually with "Fatal Error - Bad Allocation"

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Windows 8.1
TOSHIBA Satellite L55t-A
Intel Core i5-4200U CPU 1.60GHz 2.60 GHz RAM 8.00 GB
64-bit OS, 64-based processor
AOO410m18(Build:9764)  -  Rev. 1589052
2014-04-22 11:43:54 (Di, 22 Apr 2014)

I'm "camping on" to issue 125006.  It's intermittent, but I have tons of
experience with it.

For months, I have unsuccessfully been trying to replicate this problem.  And
yet I replicate it all the time in my daily work with AOO Calc.  So here
goes...

To reproduce the problem in AOO:

Either start with a virgin Calc spreadsheet or use an old complicated
spreadsheet full of formulas and Pivot Tables.
Whether working with an old Profile or a recently reset Profile does not seem
to matter.
Do heads-down data entry or develop new columns with formulas - any mix of
activities.
Save often.
Do other work with your computer such as using a browser to look at your email
- or refrain from that.
Download from a website, then Insert/Sheet From File.  Or don't.
Copy text from browser window to cells - or not.
Take your time.  Don't hold your breath -- but neither can you say "NOT
reproducible" after 10 or 20 minutes.

Using the above procedure, I get "Open Office 4.1.0 - Fatal Error /!\ bad
allocation" several times a week, sometimes up to 4 times a day.
I have a folder in Microsoft OneNote that is filling up with screen-shots of
what the window looked like when I got "bad allocation", plus notes as to what
I was doing at the time, and how the recovery went.

Typical notes (some paraphrasing): 

"Just data entry.  Cursor became a plus sign.  Tried to save - bad allocation."

"Brand new spreadsheet - trying to select an area"
 with a screen-shot showing a messed-up area on the display, overlaid by the
"bad allocation" window.

"Pasted from clipboard after not saving from 2:07 to 2:22 - bad allocation"

"Heads-down data entry stops accepting input.  After a while, input becomes
possible again.  Immediate Save results in immediate crash (i.e., AOO 'Document
Recovery' window)"

Granted, the last example is of a failed Save.  It did produce 'bad
allocation', but Save has been implicated all along as well.

By the way, I have had to try LibreOffce.  I have not seen 'bad allocation'
there yet.

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