Importing An Excel CSV File

[Dennis Malen]

To solve your problem export in tab delimited or comma delimted form and
import the file.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Importing An Excel CSV File


> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!  At about Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at
> 09:14:56PM -0600, Art Moore blabbed on about:
> > When I save the EXCEL file as a .csv file so I can import it problems
> > developed with what the EXCEL file lists as phone and FAX numbers.  In
> > the .csv file many of what should be phone numbers turn to exponential
> > form.  This only happens with phone numbers that are entered as just
> > a string of numbers like 1234567890.  When the entry is listed as
> > 123-456-7890 there is no problem.
> >
> > When the entry of 1234567890 is hi-lited an exclamation mark appears and
> > says 'the number in this cell is formatted as text or has an apostrophe
> > at the beginning'.  The entry does have an apostrophe at the beginning.
>
> I've seen references to people saying that numbers that they wanted to be
> whole show up as decimals if they don't use an apostrophe.  I believe the
> apostrophe means it should be treated as a string.  I've no idea why it
> would exponentiate.
>
> > Even if I change the format to a number left justified (or text) and
save
> > it, when I re-open the file it is back to the exponential form.
> >
> > What am I doing or not doing to make these entries correct and stay that
> > way when saved an opened as .csv file.  Formatting as special/phone
> > number does not do anything either.
>
> If you're exporting, and I'm reading the docs correctly, you have to have
> something like:
>
> export [SOMETYPE] alias
> ...
> alias(10)=14
>
> ...etc.
>
> How about taking a dummy or declared field -with- a proper phone edit, and
> using it as a middle-man?  Assuming your phone number was in field 14,
say:
>
> ProperPhone=14;alias(10)=ProperPhone
>
> Then you've formatted them for the export, they should show up properly in
> Excel like the others do, but you don't at all have to change the actual
> data in your database at any point--it's only done on the fly during
export.
>
> This work for you, or is there some reason it won't?
>
> mark->
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