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XL2000: Opening Web Page Containing PivotTable Prompts for User Name and Password

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This article was previously published under Q206938

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Symptoms

When you open a Web page that contains a Microsoft Office PivotTable list, you are prompted for a user name and password.

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Cause

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:
  • You published the PivotTable list using a PivotTable stored on a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

    -and-

  • To build the Excel PivotTable, you connected to an external database that requires a password.
When you publish a PivotTable list, Excel does not save passwords in the HTML files that it creates.

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Keywords: KB206938, kbprb

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Article Info
Article ID : 206938
Revision : 3
Created on : 10/7/2003
Published on : 10/7/2003
Exists online : False
Views : 355