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SYMPTOMSIn Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, when you use the Visual Basic ShowDataForm method, you may receive the following error message:
CAUSE
This error occurs because Microsoft Excel is unable to find a data list on
the worksheet you specified in the Visual Basic statement.
WORKAROUNDMicrosoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. Microsoft support professionals can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific needs. If you have limited programming experience, you may want to contact the Microsoft fee-based consulting line at (800) 936-5200. For more information about the support options available from Microsoft, please see the following page on the World Wide Web: http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/overview/overview.aspTo work around this problem, define your data with the defined name database, without quotation marks, or move your data so that its upper- left corner is located in any of the four cells in the range A1:B2. To define your data with the defined name "database", do the following:
To automate the above process, select the data that you want to be included in your database (including column headings), and include the following in your Visual Basic procedure:
STATUSThis is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition. REFERENCES
For more information about ShowDataForm, from the Visual Basic Editor,
click the Office Assistant, type showdataform, click Search, and then
click to view "ShowDataForm Method."
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