Microsoft KB Archive/184590

= XL97: General ODBC Error Running Macro from Excel for Macintosh =

Article ID: 184590

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q184590





SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows, you may receive the following error:

Run-time error '1004'

General ODBC Error

and you can click either End or Debug. If you click Debug, the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor opens and the line containing the Refresh method is selected.



CAUSE
This error message may occur if you have a macro that you created in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, and you run it in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows.

Because the names of the ODBC drivers that ship with these two programs are different, the macro may work on one platform, but not the other.

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel.



WORKAROUND
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The following Excel 98 Macintosh Edition macro resulted from recording a macro while retrieving data from the Customer.dbf table: Sub Macro1

With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _      "ODBC;DRIVER={Microsoft 3.01 dBASE PPC};DATABASE=" & _       "HD:Microsoft Office 98:Sample Files:Sample Databases" _      , Destination:=Range("A1"))

.Sql = Array( _      "SELECT CUSTOMER.CUSTMR_ID, CUSTOMER.COMPANY, CUSTOMER.CONTACT," & _       "CUSTOMER.CON_TITLE, CUSTOMER.ADDRESS, CUSTOMER.CITY," & _       "CUSTOMER.REGION, CUSTOMER.ZIP_CODE, CUSTOMER.COUNTRY," & _       "CUSTOMER.PHONE, CUSTOMER.FAX" & vbLf & "FROM CUSTOMER CUSTOMER")

.FieldNames = True .RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells .RowNumbers = False .FillAdjacentFormulas = False .RefreshOnFileOpen = False .HasAutoFormat = True .BackgroundQuery = True .TablesOnlyFromHTML = True .Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False .SavePassword = True .SaveData = True End With End Sub If you run Macro1 in Excel 97, you will receive the error message described in the "Symptoms" section. To adapt this macro so it will run in both Excel 97 for Windows and Excel 98 Macintosh, change it to the following: Sub cross_plat

Dim mytable As QueryTable Dim opsys As String

opsys = Application.OperatingSystem

If InStr(opsys, "Windows") > 0 Then

Set mytable = ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:=Array(Array( _     "ODBC;CollatingSequence=ASCII;" & _      "DBQ=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office;" & _      "DefaultDir=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office;Delete" _      ), Array("d=1;Driver={Microsoft dBase Driver (*.dbf)};" & _      "DriverId=533;FIL=dBase III;ImplicitCommitSync=Yes;" & _      "MaxBufferSize=512;MaxScanRows=8;P"), Array( _      "ageTimeout=600;SafeTransactions=0;Statistics=0;Threads=3;" & _      "UserCommitSync=Yes;")), Destination:=Range("A1"))

mytable.Sql = Array( _     "SELECT Customer.CUSTMR_ID, Customer.COMPANY, Customer.CITY," & _      "Customer.REGION" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) & _      "FROM `D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office`\Customer.dbf " & _      "Customer") Else

Set mytable = ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _      "ODBC;DRIVER={Microsoft 3.01 dBASE PPC};DATABASE=" & _       "HD:Microsoft Office 98:Sample Files:Sample Databases" _      , Destination:=Range("A1"))

mytable.Sql = Array( _      "SELECT CUSTOMER.CUSTMR_ID, CUSTOMER.COMPANY, CUSTOMER.CONTACT," & _       "CUSTOMER.CON_TITLE, CUSTOMER.ADDRESS, CUSTOMER.CITY," & _       "CUSTOMER.REGION, CUSTOMER.ZIP_CODE, CUSTOMER.COUNTRY," & _       "CUSTOMER.PHONE, CUSTOMER.FAX" & vbLf & "FROM CUSTOMER CUSTOMER")

End If

With mytable .FieldNames = True .RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells .RowNumbers = False .FillAdjacentFormulas = False .RefreshOnFileOpen = False .HasAutoFormat = True .BackgroundQuery = True .TablesOnlyFromHTML = True .Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False .SavePassword = True .SaveData = True End With End Sub NOTE: The change in the Cross_Plat macro is the addition of an If-Then-Else structure that tests for the operating system under which Excel is running. Based on the operating system, the macro will use one of two connection strings.

Additional query words: XL98 query XL97

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