What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Move the xll file to the Addons folder for MS Office (C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ADDINS)
2. Add new Addon to Excel using normal procedure (Excel circle button/Excel
options/Add-Ins/Manage: Excel Add-ins [Go]/Check Pyinex082-Py25-Vc90-Mt/[OK]
3. Close Excel
4. Re-open Excel
What is the expected output? I expected to see a blank Excel spreadsheet
What do you see instead? A dialog box saying:
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Microsoft Office Excel
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{Exclamation point}The file you are trying to open,
'Pyinex082-py25-vc90-mt.xll', is in a different format than specified by the
file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted
source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?
[Yes] [No] [Help]
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I can click [Yes],[No],[Help]
If I click yes, I can see some relative gibberish on the screen. If I click
no, a plain Excel spreadsheet opens. Help explains what 'different format than
file extension' means.
I expect to see the example spreadsheets, instead, I see this: dialog box.
If I load an example spreadsheet, it loads. I can change the location of the
python example file, but the spreadsheet doesn't work (I assume because the
add-on is not really loaded).
What version of the product are you using?
Pyinex082-py25-vc90-mt.xll
On what operating system?
Windows XP
Office 12 (Excel 2007)
Python 2.5.4 at c:\Program Files\Python
python25.dll at c:\Program Files\Python
Please provide any additional information below.
Other than this, Excel works as expected. Other than this, python works as
expected.
I was very excited at the thought of being able to use Python instead of VBA I
hope this is a simple fix.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
patents...@gmail.comon 22 Mar 2011 at 5:31