Re: "Transfer Data from AS/400" icon in Excel

[Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,
at first I thought that we all could switch to german now,
since the talking about "Schadenfreude" ... ;-)

But seriously:
Did you have a look at the file attributes in your Excel directory ?
Any files flagged read only ?
(Search the obvious ...)
I had a user copying files from a CD-ROM a service guy gave
him and all files were of course read-only from there ..
this caused no end of strange errors for that application.

HTH, regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch

Dan schrieb:

> I don't think that's it.  Excel is invoked with:
>   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\EXCEL.EXE
> so it must be on my local C: drive.
>
> With that in mind, I don't think there's any "enforcement" per se of
> defaulting the CA icon/toolbar in Excel.  Is there anything else the PC
> build group can do to "force" this?
>
> >(btw, I'm sure he'll say "Oh it must be Client Access...:) )
>
> Geez, how many times have I heard *that* one before?!?!  Replace
> "Client Access" with "AS/400" or "iSeries".
>
> - Dan
>
> --- Evan Harris <spanner@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > Dan
> >
> > as a wild stab in the dark I don't suppose you are using a network
> > version
> > of Excel or your network guys are dong something to reset everything
> > to the
> > defaults ?
> >
> > One of the windows guys at my last place of work had a terrible habit
> > of
> > enforcing his opinions of how applications should be set up on
> > everyone
> > that had an account on "his" server.
> >
> > It might be worth asking your microsoft guy (btw, I'm sure he'll say
> > "Oh it
> > must be Client Access...:) )
> >
> > Regards
> > Evan Harris
>