Microsoft KB Archive/206938

= XL2000: Opening Web Page Containing PivotTable Prompts for User Name and Password =

Article ID: 206938

Article Last Modified on 10/7/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office PivotTable Component 9.0, run time

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This article was previously published under Q206938



SYMPTOMS
When you open a Web page that contains a Microsoft Office PivotTable list, you are prompted for a user name and password.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:


 * You published the PivotTable list using a PivotTable stored on a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

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 * To build the Excel PivotTable, you connected to an external database that requires a password.

When you publish a PivotTable list, Excel does not save passwords in the HTML files that it creates.

Additional query words: XL2000 pivotlist login log on

Keywords: kbprb KB206938

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