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Excel-DB Help
Starting
Excel-DB
To use Excel-DB in Excel you need
to manually launch Excel-DB once so it can add the Excel-DB
toolbar and menu to Excel. After that you can use Excel-DB
simply by starting Excel and by using the Excel-DB menu or
toolbar.
To start Excel-DB for the first
time use one of the following methods:
Start Excel-DB from your computer's Start menu:
Click Start | Programs | EXCELDB | EXCELDB
This will start Excel and load the Excel-DB module. If you
have Excel already open it will just add the menu and
toolbar. To use Excel-DB simply click the Excel-DB menu or click
on the connect icon in the Excel-DB toolbar.
Start Excel-DB by double clicking EXCELDB.xla:
In Windows Explorer find the Excel-DB installation directory
(usually c:\program files\EXCELDB) and double click on the
EXCELDB.xla file.
This will start Excel and load the Excel-DB module. If you
have Excel already open it will just add the menu and
toolbar. To use Excel-DB simply click the Excel-DB menu or click
on the connect icon in the Excel-DB toolbar.
Start Excel-DB from Excel:
In Excel use File|Open and open the EXCELDB.xla file from the
Excel-DB installation directory (usually c:\program
files\EXCELDB).
This will load the Excel-DB module and add the Excel-DB menu and
toolbar. To use Excel-DB simply click the Excel-DB menu or click
on the connect icon in the Excel-DB toolbar.
Excel-DB Security warnings
On first use Excel will display a warning that you are
trying to start a file with macros.
For more information about the digital signature please see
the digital signature topic in the trouble shooting section.
To not get this annoying question again find instructions
below:
Excel 97 users:
You can simply click Yes to indicate that you trust Excel-DB.
Excel will not ask you this again.
Excel 2000 users:
Click "Enable Macros" to indicate that you want to start
Excel-DB from Linker IT Software BV(my company name). If you
check the "Always trust macros from this source) box Excel
willnot ask you this again. If you do not check the box
Excel will ask you this again each time you use Excel-DB.
Excel 2002 (XP) & 2003 users:
Click "Enable Macros" to indicate that you want to start
Excel-DB from Rampant TechPress (my company name).
If this option is grayed out Excel's security will be set to
high. Set it temporarily to medium to specify that you trust
Excel-DB. Simply set security back to high again when you have
indicated to trust Excel-DB.
Do not set the security to very high as that prevents all
macros from being executed.
In Excel go to Tools|Options|Security|Macro Security.
If you check the "Always trust macros from this source" box
Excel willnot ask you this again. If you do not check the
box Excel will ask you this again each time you use Excel-DB.
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