Quattro Pro Loader causes QPW to fail

I have a class list from the University in comma delimited text.  Every time 
I try to open it in QPW, I get a message that says: "Quattro Pro Loader has

stopped working.  A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. 
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

Then the program closes, and the data I wanted to work on remains unchanged.

First, can someone explain what Quattro Pro Loader is?  I have never heard 
of it, and I didn't find it in the help files.  Second (and most important), 
what is causing the problem, and how can I correct it?  Despite the error 
message, I did not get a "report" from MS.

I am using a Dell 530 with Vista and Quattro Pro X3 (13.0.0.565). 
Ironically, I have downloaded these class lists from the University for a 
number of years.  Earlier versions of QPW easily converted them into the 
type of columns I need with class in one column, student name in another 
column, ID in a third column, and email in a fourth column.  With each 
recent upgrade of QPW, the task became more difficult -- and now it is 
impossible because "Loader" causes the whole program to fail.

Please help!  I would hate to have to manually type in all that data for 275 
students!

MaryL 

Update:  This problem with Quattro Pro Loader apparently has nothing to do 
with the specific file I mentioned.  Today is the first day I have used X3 
(although I have used WP with no problem).  The computer is only a week old, 
and that is when I installed X3 for the first time.  I just now opened a 
grade sheet that I used last semester, and the same thing happened -- I got 
the QP Loader error message and had to exit because QPW was frozen.

MaryL

<stancole1@yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote in message 
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>
> I have a class list from the University in comma delimited text.  Every 
> time
> I try to open it in QPW, I get a message that says: "Quattro Pro
Loader 
> has
> stopped working.  A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
> Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is
available."
> Then the program closes, and the data I wanted to work on remains 
> unchanged.
>
> First, can someone explain what Quattro Pro Loader is?  I have never heard
> of it, and I didn't find it in the help files.  Second (and most 
> important),
> what is causing the problem, and how can I correct it?  Despite the error
> message, I did not get a "report" from MS.
>
> I am using a Dell 530 with Vista and Quattro Pro X3 (13.0.0.565).
> Ironically, I have downloaded these class lists from the University for a
> number of years.  Earlier versions of QPW easily converted them into the
> type of columns I need with class in one column, student name in another
> column, ID in a third column, and email in a fourth column.  With each
> recent upgrade of QPW, the task became more difficult -- and now it is
> impossible because "Loader" causes the whole program to fail.
>
> Please help!  I would hate to have to manually type in all that data for 
> 275
> students!
>
> MaryL
>
> 

stancole1@yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER wrote:
> The file in comma delimited still brings the loader error 
> message.

You might use a workaround until a better solution for the loader error is
found:

Open the comma-delimited file in Notepad, and copy the file's contents to the 
clipboard.  Then paste the clipboard's contents to an empty sheet in QPW, and 
parse that column using QuickColumns.

Cheers,
Uli

Try replacing the workspace by double-clicking the qpw.exe icon and then 
pressing the Left Shift key.

For older qp Notebooks, you will need to change the Recalc mode.  See 
the post at wpu for details.

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=19219

"Kenneth Hobson" <khobson@aaahawk.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Try replacing the workspace by double-clicking the qpw.exe icon and then 
> pressing the Left Shift key.
>
> For older qp Notebooks, you will need to change the Recalc mode.  See the 
> post at wpu for details.
>
> http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=19219
>

I pressed the left shift key while opening Quattro and saw the message 
asking if I wanted to open QPW in QPW mode, MS Excel mode, or Lotus 1-2-3 
mode.  I selected QPW (which is what I had originally selected).  That did 
not help.  The file in comma delimited still brings the loader error 
message.  I was able to open my grade sheet from last semester without any 
problems but haven't checked earlier versions yet.  Recalc also worked 
correctly in that spreadsheet.  Interestingly, I am using a variation of the 
question that was posed in the link you provided except that I use a formula 
that converts total points (not averages) to a letter grade.  I changed some 
of the exam grades to see if they would recalculate correctly, and it did 
seem correct.  I'm still left with the big problem of how to convert the 
University file, though.  In fact (just as before), I can't even attempt it 
because I immediately get the loader error.

MaryL