Converting Excel data into Word doc.

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I have a WORD 2003 document and when I do an Insert | File| sales6.xls , a
dialog box appears and states "Word cannot start the converter Excel 32" I
click ok until the Convert File dialog box appears and just to test the box I
choose MS Excel and still another message appears stating "Word cannot start
the converter Excel 32"

Any ideas?
 
Roberta said:
I have a WORD 2003 document and when I do an Insert | File| sales6.xls , a
dialog box appears and states "Word cannot start the converter Excel 32" I
click ok until the Convert File dialog box appears and just to test the box I
choose MS Excel and still another message appears stating "Word cannot start
the converter Excel 32"

Any ideas?
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Hi =?Utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0YQ==?=,

This converter is not part of the Office 2003 installation.

As part of the "security initiative", Microsoft stopped supplying old converters
from third-parties that are "unsigned" (i.e. MS can't claim full responsibility
for them). The spreadsheet converter falls under this category, as do some of
the DOS-Text converters.

You can import Excel data and get a similar result by using copy/paste.

Or, in order to get the converter, you need to contact MS Support and reference
this KB article (read it first!):
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822346

They should provide you the converter in question as a download. And they should
not charge you. If they try to charge you, note the case number and post back to
me, here.
I have a WORD 2003 document and when I do an Insert | File| sales6.xls , a
dialog box appears and states "Word cannot start the converter Excel 32" I
click ok until the Convert File dialog box appears and just to test the box I
choose MS Excel and still another message appears stating "Word cannot start
the converter Excel 32"
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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So if the person that sits next to me can convert and I can't and we're
networked here on my job, what does that indicate?

Thanks for the article. It was very informative.
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0YQ==?=,
So if the person that sits next to me can convert and I can't and we're
networked here on my job, what does that indicate?
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Chances are, that machine had an earlier version of Office installed which
included these converters, and the current one was installed over it. That
will retain the converters, and Word will continue to use them.

In this case, you (or your IT group) should be able to copy the converter
file to your machine. Look for Excel32.cnv and place it in the same folder
where the other *.cnv files are located.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
 
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