Hi gsteck,

Do either of these help? At least the second link indicates you're not
alone and that Oracle is aware of the issue (and blames it on MS).

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...207e5aa80705a2

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e28e566b663026

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...=987340&page=3

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Regards,

Jake Marx
MS MVP - Excel
www.longhead.com

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gsteck wrote:
We use many Access Databases as well, but MS Query allows the end
users to refresh data quickly and easily without having to open a
database. The data gets put directly into a spreadsheet and can be
manipulted from there. It also prevents accidental changing or
deleting data in the database.

"Kirk P." wrote:

I can't speak directly to your problem with MS Query, but if you are
familiar with MS Access, I would use Access to pull the data from
your Oracle tables and create a local table within Access. You can
then ODBC connect Excel to the Access table you created.


"gsteck" wrote:

We have been using MS Query for several years to bring information
from a Unix based database, via an ODBC connection.
We recently upgraded from Oracle 7 to Oracle 8i and though I can
create new queries without any problems, I cannot go back and edit
the query for some reason. I get a message 'waiting for data to be
returned from MS Query' but then it disappears and leaves me at the
spreadsheet.
Any help would be appreciated.