Article ID: 176940
Article Last Modified on 8/15/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q176940
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows, when you click Finish in step 4 of the
Internet Assistant Wizard, you may receive the following error message:
The directory you selected is protected (you might have read-only
access to the server).
In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, you receive the following
error message:
The wizard can not save the file to the location you specified.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if the location that you specify in the File Path box
is a read-only location, for example, a folder on a network server.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, specify a location to which you have full access
in the File Path box. If you are unable to specify such a location, do
either of the following:
- Specify a folder to which you have full access on your computer.
-or-
- Click Cancel.
STATUS
This behavior is by design of the versions of Microsoft Excel listed at
the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
When you click Save As HTML on the File menu, the Internet Assistant Wizard
appears and guides you through the steps of saving a range in a worksheet
as a new Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file or as a table in an existing
HTML file. You must have full access to the location in which you are
saving the HTML file. If you do not, you receive one of the error messages
in the "Symptoms" section in this article.
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