XL97: Hyperlinks to Charts Fail After Saving to FrontPage Web (172112)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q172112

SYMPTOMS

After you use the Internet Assistant for Microsoft Excel to save the contents of an Excel worksheet as a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file, hyperlinks that link to charts may not work.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

  • You add the HTML document to a FrontPage Web. -and-

  • You save the HTML document to a subfolder of the FrontPage Web.
The HTML document that is created from the Excel worksheet is saved into the correct subfolder. However, the GIF files that are created from charts on the Excel worksheet are saved into the root directory of the FrontPage web.

WORKAROUND

Move the GIF files created by the Internet Assistant Wizard to the subfolder that contains the HTML document that is created by the Internet Assistant Wizard.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about using the Internet Assistant Wizard, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

Internet Assistant Wizard

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Publish Microsoft Excel data on a Web" topic.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/21/2000
Keywords:kbbug kbchart kbinterop KB172112
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