Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Using FBODBC driverwith MSOffice applications

[Michael D. S. <sp...@pa...>]

Ah.  Well, it behaves the same way in MS Word and Access so
I guess it's a problem for MS Office 2002 in general.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fir...@li... 
> [mailto:fir...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of bill lam
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:23 PM
> To: fir...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Using FBODBC driverwith 
> MSOffice applications
> 
> 
> Michael D. Spence wrote:
> > There's no script involved.  Heres what I'm doing:
> > 
> > Open Excel.  On the new spreadsheet, select 
> > Data | Import External Data | Import Data.
> > 
> > This brings up an Open dialog to select a DSN.  Click New
> > Source.  This brings up the Data Connection Wizard.  Select
> > ODBC DSN from the list and click Next.  The (System) DSN I
> > created is one of the choices.  Select it, click Next and
> > the error message appears.
> 
> Thank you. I can also see the error now.  I guess this is a 
> bug in ms excel. 
> Whether it needs to workaround the bug is at Vladimir's decision.
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> bill
> 
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