Export

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>To all,
>
>Although it is not supposed to happen, there appears to be a difference
>between the export ascii and export word options.
>
>In this case, size does make a difference.  
>
>I have a file with over 107,000 records, 14 fields, which when completely
>exported creates a file of just over 10 MB.
>
>Apparently export word can't export this much data as it stops at 3MB of
>data.  Using this function, I got just over 26,000 records and the last one
>was only the first 3 fields.  The interesting part is the output continued
>although the export file was not excepting any more data.  FilePro did not
>indicate that there was/is a problem. 
>
>This problem may relate back to the size a merge file can/could be.
>
>Once I changed to export ascii, the complete file was exported.
>
>Now a non-profile issue:
>
>Imported the csv file into Access 2007, as my client is analyzing some data
>using pivot tables.  In MS's inimitable way, it screwed up the import by
>separating Jones Jr. (one field) in 2 columns. About 100 instances of this
>type. This messed up the rest of the data for that record.
>
>To eliminate the problem, I had to save the csv off as an excel worksheet
>and then import that into Access 2007.  This worked.

I have had problems importing ascii data into spreadsheets as there are
often issues with the data types in columns.  My solution is to load the
exported data into a mysql table, which is then easily available to the
OpenOffice.org calc program using a jdbc connection to the mysql database.

We generally use Openoffice.org or its native Mac neoffice variant.  I have
MS-Office for Mac, but very rarely use it as OpenOffice.org does everything
I need, and has the database access which I don't think is readily
available with MS-Office.

Bill
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