Re: Yahoo quotes error in Excel

From: Tom Ogilvy (twogilvy_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:18:32 -0500

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy
"Sonny Kocak[MSFT]" <a-sonnyk@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Peter ,
>
> Thank you for contacting Microsoft Excel Online Support. My name is Sonny
> and I will
> be assisting you with this issue.
>
> It clearly appears that you understand that the whole issue is the lack of
> the CSV file. Thus, I can not speculate to Yahoo behavior on this manner.
> However, I can offer some helpful suggestions. One needs to ask: does this
> happen for each stock? Does it happen only for my existing stock list? Do
I
> need to rebuild my list? Does this occur on new stock that I haven't
tried?
> Is the problem isolated to just this machine?
>
> Finally, It appears that Yahoo Finance web site still supports and
provides
> downloadable stock files for spreadsheets. I am including two links below
> to Yahoo support pages: The first is for problems with downloadable
> spread***. (NOTE: with special instructions for Netscape 4.0 users). The
> second link is general finance support.
>
> 1)    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/fin/quote/quote-05.html
>
> 2)    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/fin/quote/
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Sonny Kocak
> Microsoft Developer Support Professional
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> | From: "Peter Benson" <junk@junk.com>
> | Subject: Yahoo quotes error in Excel
> | Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:16:17 +1100
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> | For those of you who have recently been getting "Application-defined or
> | object-defined error" when attepting to get a quote from Yahoo from Exce
> | VBA:  their US site http://finance.yahoo.com/?u  currently won't let you
> | download a CSV file. eg get a quote for IBM and click  the "download
data"
> | link. As at today it simply displays the data in your browser window
> rather
> | than letting you download the data in CSV format like it used to. Over
the
> | last month the problem was intermittent but now it seems to be constant.
> As
> | no CSV file is downloaded Excel displays the Application-defined or
object
> | defined error.
> |
> | I have no idea whether the problem with Yahoo is temporary or permanent.
> |
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