XL98: UserForm Is Lost When Saving in Earlier Version Format
Article ID: 178462
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q178462
SYMPTOMS
After you save a workbook in an earlier version of Microsoft Excel, any
UserForms in the file are lost.
Note that you do not receive a warning message that indicates that
Microsoft Excel will fail to save the UserForms.
CAUSE
This problem may occur if all of the following conditions are true:
- You add a UserForm to a Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition workbook.
-and-
- You save the file in a file format for an earlier version of Microsoft
Excel.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
MORE INFORMATION
A UserForm is a new feature in Microsoft Excel 98 and is not supported by
earlier Macintosh versions of Microsoft Excel.
REFERENCES
For more information about saving files in an earlier file format, click
the Index button in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Using Microsoft Excel
98 files with previous versions" topic.
Additional query words: XL98 dialog missing
Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB178462