XL98: Web Query File Is Case Sensitive (181905)

SYMPTOMS

When you run a Web query in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, you may receive the following error

An unexpected error has occurred

and your only option is to click OK. After you click OK, the Web query stops, and no data is returned to the worksheet.

WORKAROUND

To resolve this behavior, change the first line of text in the query file to uppercase letters. For example, if the contents of the Web query file is the following:

Web
1
http://webservices.pcquote.com/cgi-bin/exceldow.exe?

change the text to:

WEB 1 http://webservices.pcquote.com/cgi-bin/exceldow.exe?

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel 98, Web queries allow you to query data from a specific World Wide Web, Internet, or intranet site, and return the information directly into a Microsoft Excel worksheet. Microsoft Excel 98 includes some sample Web queries, which are located in the <Hard Disk>:Microsoft Office 98:Office:Queries folder where "<Hard Disk>" is your hard disk name.

To run a Web query, point to Get External Data on the Data menu, and then click Run Web Query. Then, locate and select the file that contains the query and click Get Data in the Run Query dialog box.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

178870 XL98: How to Create Web Query Files

REFERENCES

For more information about Web queries, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

web, queries

and then click Show Topics. Select the "Get data from a web source" topic, and click Go To. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.