Office Excel to connect to Oracle with no joy :(

v1k45

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Evening all,

I have a similar problem :(

Running XP x64 and have installed office 2003 onto the PC

All the apps I need run excel for when I have a spread sheet that requires the ODBC connection to a Oracle database.

I have installed the 32bit and 64bit Oracle client, yet it refuses to run.

I get 2 errors:

[Microsoft][ODBC driver for Oracle][Oracle]ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connection identifier specified

Then:

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed

Then I get a prompt for the username, password and server.

In the 32bit Data Source Administrator I can connect to the server through the System DNS.

Why on earth can I not connect using Excel.

I have read: The 32-bit version of the ODBC Administrator tool and the 64-bit version of the ODBC Administrator tool display both the 32-bit user DSNs and the 64-bit user DSNs in a 64-bit version of the Windows operating system

Yet I cannot make heads or tails of whats needed.

Any input or help would be greatful.

Many Thanks,
V1K45
 

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