Microsoft KB Archive/69353

“Cannot Find QESTART.XLA” Error During Excel Tutorial PSS ID Number: Q69353 Article last modified on 02-26-1993 PSS database name: W_eXceL

3.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

If either the QE.XLA or the QESTART.XLA add-in files are loaded before starting the Excel Tutorial, you will recieve the error message “Cannot find QE.XLA” or “Cannot find QESTART.XLA” during the fourth section on Databases.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Excel for Windows version 3.0. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel for Windows version 4.0.

More Information:

Exiting the Tutorial and restarting Excel and the Tutorial without opening either add-in will allow you to complete section four.

If either QESTART.XLA or QE.XLA are in the XLSTART subdirectory, you will need to move them so that Excel does not load them automatically.

To quickly check whether either add-in has been loaded, choose the Data menu. If you see the “Set Database” option, the add-in files have not been loaded. If instead, you see the “Set Database…” option, one of the add-in files has been loaded.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.