Be careful with Microsoft's DIF import.  We were sending General Ledger
account numbers in the form "2-10-55" and Excel converted them to dates even
though we followed the DIF spec of a text cell.  We got around it with some
VBA code and the MS rep said a fix may make it into the next version.


-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Dr. Ferenc Nagy
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 6:07 AM
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Subject: Re: Transfer Excel file to HP3000


What about saving the  Excel files in Data Interchange Format and
transferring the resulting text file?

                                                       Frank Nagy