I think OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet is much more consistant at importing
files, and the suite is smoother and more powerful linking to a variety of
database backends.

On 3/7/07, Walter J. Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Michael Anderson writes:
>
> > IMHO, Excel has a lame import process, it try's to out-smart you while
> > doing things you just don't want it to do.
>
> That's what I discovered recently when I wrote a COBOL program to create
> a file for Excel to import.  I had to go through all sorts of gyrations
> to get Excel to import it correctly.
>
> One thing that helped immensely was changing the program to create the
> file as a tab-delimited file.  Once I did that, I was able to take all
> the defaults in Excel's import wizard.
>
> Walter
>
> Walter J. Murray
>
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