XL98: "String Not Present" Message When Using Internet Assistant

• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

If you use the Internet Assistant Wizard to insert a Microsoft Excel table in an existing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file, you may receive the following error message:

   The string "<!--##Table##-->" is not present in the file you selected.
   You need to use your Web browser or a text editor to insert this string
   into your HTML source file. This will specify exactly where the
   converted data should be placed.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because the Internet Assistant Wizard is case sensitive. The error message in the "Symptoms" section appears if the string in the HTML document is not capitalized exactly as the string appears in the error message. For example, if the following string is in the existing HTML document

   <!--##TABLE##-->

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, specify the string for the insertion point for the Microsoft Excel data exactly as follows:

   <!--##Table##-->

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The Internet Assistant Wizard is not new to Microsoft Excel; however, it has changed significantly since it was released as a free add-in available on the Microsoft Web site in January 1996. You can now install the Internet Assistant Wizard as component of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Excel. The wizard has been enhanced to take advantage of the new Internet features of Microsoft Office, Microsoft FrontPage, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

With the Internet Assistant Wizard, you can leverage existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data to create and distribute documents that can be viewed online with a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. By clicking a series of buttons in the wizard, you can convert spreadsheet data to a separate Web document or you can insert the data into an existing Web document.

REFERENCES

For more information about the Internet Assistant Wizard, click Contents and Index on the Help menu, click the Index button in MS Excel Help, type the following text

   internet