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Re: Mathematica Link for Excel - Problems in starting the link

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• Subject: [mg37070] Re: Mathematica Link for Excel - Problems in starting the link
• From: "Aron Palmer" <aron.palmer at ukonline.co.uk>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

 
I am getting the same problem (though Mathematica 4.1).
Has anyone any ideas?
 
Thanks, 
Aron.
 
 
>Hi,
>
>I am facing the problem in starting the link to math kernel from within
>Excel.
>
>Specifically, when I get the message "link failed to open" when I click
>Launch button in the 'Start Mathematica Link' dialog box. I have tried
using
>Multilink too so that I am able to access the kernel from Mathematica
and
>Excel simultaneously but I still get the same message.
>
>I am currently using Mathematica 4.0 and Excel 2002 (Excel XP). The
programs
>Mathematica and Excel otherwise appear to work fine. I am using Windows
XP
>home edition on Dell 8100 laptop. I have used the Mathematica Link for
MS
>Excel for Excel 2000 in my installation as there were no specific files
for
>Excel 2002. Given that I was able to successfully add the menus within
excel
>I think the addin should work fine but it does not?
>
>All help would be sincerely appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Tahir Sheikh.