Microsoft KB Archive/188992

= XL97: No Help on Link for Formatting Can't Be Converted to HTML =

Article ID: 188992

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q188992





SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel Help, when you click on the following link

Some aspects of Microsoft Excel formatting cannot be converted to HTML. For more information, click >>.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is not listed as a file format.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Excel 2000.



MORE INFORMATION
In Microsoft Excel Help, one of the topics is "Publish Microsoft Excel data on a Web." When you view that topic and click the link mentioned in the "Symptoms" section for more information, you cannot find the information.

To demonstrate this problem, follow these steps:  In Microsoft Excel, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

html

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Publish Microsoft Excel data on a Web" topic. Under Notes, click the link after "Some aspects of Microsoft Excel formatting cannot be converted to HTML. For more information, click >>."

Notice that HTML is not listed as a file format.

This problem also occurs when you click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, and type the following text

files, saving

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Formatting and features not transferred in file conversions" topic.

Additional query words: XL97 conversion save as web page export

Keywords: kbbug kbconversion kbdocerr kbpending KB188992

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