XL97: Error When You Display Form Created by Web Form Wizard (161795)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q161795 SYMPTOMS
When you use an Internet browser to view a form that is created by the Web
Form Wizard, you may receive the following error message:
<File name>: file format is not valid
where <File name> is the name of the form. When this behavior occurs, your
only option is to click OK.
CAUSE
This behavior may occur if Microsoft Excel 97 is not installed on the
computer. To use your Internet browser to display a form that is created by
the Microsoft Excel 97 Web Form Wizard, Microsoft Excel 97 must be
installed on your computer.
The form created by the Web Form Wizard is a Microsoft Excel 97 workbook.
When you use a Web browser to view this form, Microsoft Excel 97 must open
the workbook in order for the browser to display the form.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, install Microsoft Excel 97 on your computer.
MORE INFORMATION
Requesting and gathering information over the Internet requires the use of
forms. In addition, you must have some knowledge of the server, database
storage, and computer programming.
Because you can use a Microsoft Excel worksheet to simulate a form, you can
use Microsoft Excel 97 as an engine to generate a form for the Web.
When others visit your Web site and make a request for the Microsoft Excel
97 form, the form is downloaded to the client, and Microsoft Excel 97 is
started. When the user completes the form and clicks Submit Info, Microsoft
Excel submits the data on the form to the database on your Web server.
Then, Microsoft Excel closes the form and quits.
On the server, the data is parsed according to the method you specify when
you create the form using the Web Form Wizard. The methods you can specify
are Microsoft Internet Information Server, or Common Gateway Interface
(CGI). If you use Internet Information Server, the data is saved in the
Microsoft Access database (.mdb) file that is created by the wizard. If you
use CGI, the data is processed by a PERL script and is saved in a .csv text
file.
REFERENCES
For more information about the Web Form Wizard, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "About setting up your
data gathering system" topic.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 10/22/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kberrmsg kbualink97 kbweb KB161795 |
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