KB201673 - ACC2000: "Invalid Setting in EXCEL Key...," Exporting to dBASE 5

Article ID: 201673

Article Last Modified on 6/29/2004

Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q201673

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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry

Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

SYMPTOMS

If you manually change the string "DataCodePage" in the Registry key

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Xbase

to anything other than "OEM" or "ANSI" and try to export using the dBASE 5 ISAM driver, you receive the following error message:

Invalid setting in EXCEL key of the Engines section of the Windows Registry.

CAUSE

An error is expected when you set the "DataCodePage" string value to something other than "OEM" or "ANSI," which are the only valid options; however, the error message does not refer to the correct Jet ISAM. It should be Xbase instead of Excel.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Problem

WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Run box, type regedit and then click OK.
In the Registry Editor, expand the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SoftWare\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Xbase
In the right pane, double-click the string value "DataCodePage."
Change the value for string "DataCodePage" to "International" (without the quotation marks) and click OK.
Close the Registry editor.
Open the sample database Northwind.mdb.
Click the Categories table and on the File menu, click Export.
In the Export dialog box, click the arrow in the Save as Type box, and select dBASE 5. Click Save.

Note that you receive the error described in the "Symptoms" section of this article.

REFERENCES

For information about errors you may receive with importing, exporting, or linking text files, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

208206 Error Message Importing/Exporting/Linking Text Files

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