Microsoft Excel Readme File
March 2001
© Microsoft Corporation, 1985-2001. All rights reserved.

This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the Microsoft Excel documentation, and is current as of the date above. After that date, you may find more current information and resources on the Microsoft Office Web site, available from the Help menu by clicking Office On The Web. Additional information, including network and administration issues, can be found on the Office Resource Kit Web site at:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/

For further technical information on Excel, please search the Microsoft Product Support Services information on the Personal Online Support Web site at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/

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Contents

Working with Excel
Genius Assistant character no longer installed
Clip Web Collections scope requires Internet Explorer 5 or later
Tools on the Web and Internet Explorer
Handwriting recognition may not display on the screen when using certain display settings
New default behavior when referencing a cell in a PivotTable report

Multilingual issues
Excel and Indic languages

Help issues
Help topic: Create a digital dashboard
Help topic: Tips for finding clips
Help topic: Turn on or off transparent floating toolbars

Installing Excel

Error message 2355 or Corrupt Cabinet

If during installation of Excel you receive error message number 2355 or the message text "Corrupt Cabinet," update the version of Microsoft Windows Installer on your computer by running the appropriate executable file found on the installation CD. The following assumes that D:\ is your CD drive.

After running the file, restart your computer and begin installation again.

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Loading Microsoft SQL Server 2000 prior to Office XP or Excel

If you install SQL Server 2000, after you install Office XP or Excel, SQL Server Analysis services client DLLs will not operate properly. This prevents any connection to OLAP services from Excel or OWC PivotTable, and may affect the OLAP Manager component of SQL Server Analysis services.

Make sure to install SQL Server 2000 first and Office XP second. If you have already installed SQL Server 2000 after installing Office XP, the problem can be fixed by running Office repair.

Once SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 is available you will not experience this issue and can install the two products in either order.

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Working with Excel

Genius Assistant character no longer installed

Excel no longer supports the Genius Assistant character. For customers who were using this Office Assistant and who are upgrading from Excel 2000, the Assistant will be switched to the default character, Clippit. Upon upgrading, customers can select another Assistant by right-clicking the Assistant and then clicking Choose Assistant.

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Clip art Web Collections scope requires Internet Explorer 5 or later

When you are searching for clip art, either in Clip Organizer or in the Insert Clip Art task pane, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later to use the Web Collections scope in the Search in list.

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If you are using handwriting recognition to enter text, handwriting may not appear on the screen if your computer's display colors are set to 256 Colors or if the display font size is set to Large Fonts.

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The new default behavior in Excel when referencing a cell in a PivotTable report is to generate a GETPIVOTDATA formula that references the data itself, instead of just the cell. To change this default back to a simple cell reference, do the following steps.

1. To display the PivotTable toolbar, select Toolbars on the View menu, and then click PivotTable.
2. Click on the dropdown arrow on the right end of the PivotTable toolbar.
3. Click Add or Remove Buttons, and then PivotTable.
4. Make sure the Generate GetPivotData option is checked.
5. On the PivotTable toolbar, click Generate GetPivotData.

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If you are enabling support for the Indic languages, it is recommended that you choose Indic in the Default version of Microsoft Office list in the Microsoft Office Language Settings (on the Start menu, point to Programs, and then click Microsoft Office Language Settings).

Microsoft Excel requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or later for Indic language support. Devanagari and Tamil scripts are fully supported with Windows 2000.

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The procedures in this topic for creating digital dashboards from Microsoft Outlook or from the Add Network Place Wizard are incorrect. You cannot create a digital dashboard from either Outlook or the Add Network Place Wizard. If you have Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001, you can create a personal dashboard on that server by clicking the Create a new personal dashboard link on the server's dashboard site home page, and then following instructions. For more information on how to create a digital dashboard, download the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit (DDRK), which is available on the Microsoft Digital Dashboard Web site at:

http://www.microsoft.com/business/digitaldashboard/

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This topic contains an inaccurate example. The search "blue, car" would actually yield results for blue AND car for local scopes, and would yield results for blue only for the Web Collections scope.

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Disregard this Help topic, which documents a toolbar feature that is not available in Excel.

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