Re: [NF] Excel 2003 on Windows 8

Author: Jeff Johnson

Posted: 2014-04-08 at 09:56:18

Yes, this is Office 2003 32 bit.

On 4/8/2014 7:55 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:

> Silly question but is the 32 bit version of O2003 installed on this system? Assuming there was such a distinction with O2003?

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> rk

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> Subject: [NF] Excel 2003 on Windows 8

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> I am trying to test an application the imports an Excel spreadsheet on Windows 8. It won't work because Windows 8 has two ODBC Managers. The

> 32 bit manager has all of the drivers in it, but Windows 8 will not look for them. There are no Office 2003 drivers in the 64 bit manager.

>

> Do I need to use a different connection string? Has anyone noticed that Office 2003 support ends today too?

>

> this has been working for me all along:

> lnsqlhandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT("Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)}; DBQ=" + lcspreadsheet + ";")

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> Jeff

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