Exporting large MEMO to SLK and opening it

[Mike Fedkiw]

I really appreciate all the reply's and help I've gotten here, I don't 
think I'd have found a suitable solution without it.

Now that I have a solution to my problems exporting a MEMO to a SLK 
file, I figured I'd post what I'm doing in case It might help someone 
else out in the future.

1.  This worked to export the data export multi 
invfile=c:\!Output\eBay\eBayInvy.slk

2.  This worked to copy the MEMO data invfile(46)=""{invy(367)

The above worked to export the data all along but it took me a while to 
realize it because of the errors I was seeing when trying to open the 
exported SLK file. Then after playing around a bit and doing a little 
more testing and some google searches I found out that Microsoft Excel 
will only open SLK files with 255 characters or less in a cell without 
errors. After knowing the limitations of excel I started looking around 
for a different program to open, edit, etc the SLK files and I found a 
very nice solution with "SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows" for only 
about 50.00.

I just figured I'd post this information because even if someone knows 
how to export a MEMO to a SLK file, if it happens to be larger than 255 
characters they may not know the limitations of opening that file with 
MS Excel.


Mike




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