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FP2000: Error Message: "FrontPage Cannot Be Found on Your Machine"

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This article was previously published under Q219639

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Symptoms

When you use the Internet Assistant Wizard in Excel 97 to open a file directly in a FrontPage web, and you insert a range of cells into a web page, you receive the following error message:
"FrontPage cannot be found on your machine. Please make sure that it is installed and working properly."

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Cause

Excel 97 was designed prior to FrontPage 2000; therefore, the Internet Assistant Wizard in Excel 97 does not recognize that FrontPage 2000 has been installed. The Internet Assistant Wizard was not designed for compatibility with FrontPage 2000.

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Resolution

To resolve this issue, import the Excel 97 document into FrontPage 2000 and convert it to HTML. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. In FrontPage, on the File menu, click Import.
  2. In the Import dialog box, click Add File.
  3. Browse to the location of the Excel 97 file and select it.
  4. In the Import dialog box, click OK.
  5. In the Folder List of Page view, right-click the Excel 97 document.
  6. Click Open With on the menu.
  7. In the Open With Editor dialog box, select FrontPage.exe, and then click OK.
  8. Click OK.
FrontPage automatically converts your document to HTML, with the cell range that you selected positioned appropriately on the web page.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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More information

If you attempt to open the file directly, using the Internet Assistant Wizard in Excel 97, an error message similar to the following appears:
The string "<!--##table##--> is not present in the file you selected. You need to use your Web browser or text editor to insert this string into your HTML source file. This will specify exactly where the converted data should be placed.

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Keywords: KB219639, kbpending, kbbug

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Article Info
Article ID : 219639
Revision : 1
Created on : 10/24/2000
Published on : 10/24/2000
Exists online : False
Views : 295