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XL98: DAO and ODBCDirect Are Not Supported

Article ID: 181224

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002

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This article was previously published under Q181224

SYMPTOMS

Data Access Objects (DAO) and ODBCDirect are not available in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition. As a result, you cannot run Visual Basic for Applications macros that use DAO or ODBCDirect to retrieve external data into Microsoft Excel. Macros that use standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) to retrieve external data should work correctly.

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

Data Access Objects (DAO) allows you to use a programming language to access and manipulate data in local or remote databases, and manage databases, their objects, and their structure.

ODBCDirect establishes a connection directly to an ODBC data source without loading the Microsoft Jet database engine into memory. ODBCDirect is useful in situations in which you require specific features of ODBC.

Additional query words: XL98

Keywords: kbinfo kbinterop KB181224


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