Microsoft KB Archive/176832

= "Could not be found" or "Cannot find" Consolidating Data =

Article ID: 176832

Article Last Modified on 8/15/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q176832



SYMPTOMS
When you try to consolidate data in the versions of Microsoft Excel listed at the beginning of this article, you may receive error messages similar to the following:

'*' could not be found. Check the spelling of the file name, and verify that the file location is correct.

If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently used files on the File menu, make sure that the file has not been renamed, moved, or deleted.

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Cannot find '*'.

If you click OK for either of these error messages, you receive an error message similar to the following:

Cannot open consolidation source file '*'.

If you click OK, you receive the following error message

No data was consolidated.



CAUSE
This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
 * You are using the Consolidate command. -and-


 * You add a reference to a file by using a wildcard character (* or ?).



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.

