Microsoft KB Archive/101451

Error Message: ‘Word Cannot Start the Converter DBASE.CNV’

PSS ID Number: Q101451 Article last modified on 11-01-1994

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WINDOWS

= SYMPTOMS =

The following error message may occur when you open a dBase file in Word for Windows if Q+E for Microsoft Excel is running and you opened a dBase file before you started Word:

Word cannot start the converter DBASE.CONV

This error message does not occur while Q+E is running if you did not open a dBase file in Q+E prior to opening a dBase file in Word.

= CAUSE =

We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= WORKAROUND =

Exit Q+E before you open a dBase file in Word.

= MORE INFORMATION =

If Q+E has already loaded its dBase converter, Word cannot load its dBase converter (DBASE.CNV).

The dBase products included here are manufactured by Ashton-Tate, vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products’ performance or reliability.

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