[mso] AccessXP --> ExcelXP -> *.asp --> confusion

A task I do every day involves opening a Web page containing a table of data
and turning the data into an *.asp page.
Before my system crashed a couple of weeks ago, I did this through this
procedure:

a) block and copy the Web table, including column headings, to an Excel
worksheet
b) import the *.xls file to AccessXP, which used a wizard so I could change
a heading, etc.
c) use ASP to produce the desired Web page

However, since my system crashed and the OS (Win2kPro) and all programs had
to be reinstalled, step b) has changed.

Now I can click to File/Get external data/Import, locate the file to be
imported and double-click it.  I then get a list of worksheets in the file.
When I double-click the one I want, the table is instantly created.  The
column headings are now F1, F2, etc., and the original (and Excel) column
headings are now record 1.  In other words, the wizard has disappeared and
the column headings are considered to be a record.

How can I get back to the old (better) way of producing the Access table?

[In what may be an unrelated change, when I do b), the default file type has
become not *.mdb, which it used to be, but Registry error (*.*).  Does this
signify?]

Michael E. Etchison
MLE Consulting
www.mleconsulting.com

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