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KB2553447 broke concurrent usage of Excel sheets in Word mail merge

已答复 KB2553447 broke concurrent usage of Excel sheets in Word mail merge

  • Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:18 PM
     
     
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    We use a network based Excel sheet as mail merge source in different Word documents in our Server 2008R2 / Office 2010 environment. Since MS12-046 (KB2553447) only one user at a time can use this source, the second sees the message "External table is not in the expected format".

    If I uninstall this update containing the new aceexcl.dll (14.0.6117.5000) and running with the old one (14.0.6015.1000) multiple concurrent users can use the Excel sheet as data source without problems.

    Is this a functionality change or rather a bug? It broke our work.

    Thank you!

    Daniel

     

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  • Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:10 PM
     
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    Hi Daniel,

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have been able to reproduce the issue and have reported it to development. Unfortunately I do not have a timeframe on when this may be address.

    I am sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.

    In my testing I did find that this is not an issue if you save your Excel file in the Excel 97-2003 (.xls) file format, nor is it an issue with Office 2007.

    Unfortunately my only suggestion would be to save the Excel file in the Excel 97-2003 (.xls) file format but hopefully someone else on this thread will be able to provide additional guidance.

    Alternatively you can open a support incident by following the instructions in this article.
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=fh;en-us;offerprophone

    Best Regards,

    Donald M.
    Microsoft Online Community Support

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  • Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:13 PM
     
     
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    Thanks a lot for acknowledging this, Donald!

    I'll try the old xls file format and hopefully some day this gets fixed.

    Daniel