Words to Wise AOL Users
If you connect to the internet through America Online, you may have
special problems downloading and using the Excel data file. AOL loves to
keep its customers inside its browser at all times, so when you download
the Excel file for Lesson 1, the AOL browser is likely to launch the Excel
program on your hard drive inside of your AOL browser. That can be
really annoying (they do it, of course, so that you never lose sight
of all the wonderful advertising that AOL brings you). Because of how the
browser is configured, it can be difficult or impossible to Save the
datafile you have downloaded onto your hard drive. Here's one "work around."
- Select the data in the spreadsheet appearing inside your AOL
browser by clicking and dragging from the upper left-hand corner of
the spreadsheet throughout the entire display of data, then choose
Copy from the Edit menu.
- Now shut off your AOL browser and open your Excel Program.
- Click in the upper left-hand corner of the spreadsheet, then
select Paste from the Edit menu.
- Unless we miss our guess, you should now be able to work with the
data in the spreadsheet; the first thing you should do is
Save a copy.
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