importing extended descriptions from excel

[Fairlight]

A normal real field can only hold 999 characters, so unless you can
guarantee your data will always fit, you need to either make memos or blobs
work, or take the sane approach and store the raw data in a file and simply
store the path to the file.

mark->

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 08:47:32PM -0400, Mike via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Can someone please help me out or at least point me in the right direction?
> 
> I have an excel files from my vendors which I usually use for
> importing in price increases and other small modifications but now
> I'd like to import extended descriptions into Filepro too. When I
> tried using a memo field for that data I got a critical error which
> forced Filepro to close.
> 
> The type of file that I usually use is a ".dif" file. I been useing
> that format  because it retains the leading zeros on numbers like
> UPC codes and other numbers.
> 
> This is an example of the data that I'm trying to import into a
> field, memo or whatever works .
> 
> 
> 
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