[mso] Re: AccessXP --> ExcelXP -> *.asp --> confusion
- From: Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:30:27 -0500
Michael, thanks for the url, tried to re-create your steps on my XP/Access
2002 setup, but getting error and I can't even get as far as you did, so
I've got to get my own installation corrected. Wizard worked fine in
Access 97 under XP. Possible work-arounds, which you may already be using,
when you paste the data into excel, select all, copy, then paste into
datasheet view of table. Keep this as a permanent prep table, leave the
headers @ Field 1, Field 2, etc., then write a permanent append or make
table query that fires up automatically when you do this certain process,
and renames the fields on export to your final destination table with
proper headers that you use in all your asp processes. OR just past the
data into the excel table, keeping it the same name and linking to it with
the same situation on field names for the query. In either case you would
not copy the header row when you select your table, or delete that row when
you get to excel so your data is good. And it is based on the premise that
the destination table headers would basically be the same each time, only
the data would change. Sorry I don't know anything on the systems
configuration side to get your wizard working right, as work-arounds are
not the best final solution.
Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention, I'll try a re-installation
and if any clues come forward, will let you know. Hope yours gets worked
out OK, best of everything.
Regards,
Cathy
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michael E. Etchison
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 4:02 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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