Microsoft KB Archive/178962

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

Article ID: 178962

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q178962





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 "" 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.

This behavior occurs even if the string in the message already exists in the HTML document you specified.



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 you receive the error message.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, specify the string for the insertion point for the Microsoft Excel data exactly as follows: Note that only the letter "T" in the word "Table" is capitalized.



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.

