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    #1

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    I have excel 2007 and there is no export for ascii or excel 3 or 4 and so I am wondering how to import from excel.

    Any ideas???
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    #2
    Re: importing

    Go to File, select Import data, then select remote database using AlphaDAO.
    Then select Define connection string, then select Excel file and choose the Excel file you want to import.
    Hope this helps.
    David
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      #3
      Re: importing

      Originally posted by SmartMLMer View Post
      I have excel 2007 and there is no export for ascii or excel 3 or 4 and so I am wondering how to import from excel.

      Any ideas???
      In addition to what David said, .......

      Or use excel to export to a dbf.
      Al Buchholz
      Bookwood Systems, LTD
      Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

      Occam's Razor - KISS
      Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
      Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
      When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
      "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
      Albert Einstein

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        #4
        Re: importing

        A search of the forum would have provided the answer. It's been discussed on several occasions.

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          #5
          Re: importing

          Just a clarification use excel and do a save as "dbf" file type

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            #6
            Re: importing

            My excel does not allow for saving in dbf format and it doesn't allow saving in Excel 3.0 or 4.0 or in ascii.

            Any other ideas. Importing is the only way my stuff will work without a lot of work.

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              #7
              Re: importing

              OK, You can do a save as a CSV or a tab seperated file. These are importable as ASCII files.

              If you have the disks for your 2007, then you could also do a full install of excel as I think you may not have all its features installed. It would be remiss of MS to not have these features still in excell

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                #8
                Re: importing

                I will try that in the next couple days because it didn't make sense. Thanks for responding.

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                  #9
                  Re: importing

                  Bruce,
                  Are you certain of that? Even the Student edition I have used in Excel 2007 can save as a Excel 97-2003 Workbook or Template, a couple of CSV types, and several text types. I think it is correct in that dbf was taken out of Excel 2007 entirely.

                  Later Edit---I seem to remember a way to save as dbf in Excel 2007--a work-around by some Excel people in a forum I visited quite some time ago when this issue was first brought up here on the messageboard....think it was a bit convoluted though so use the other methods.
                  Mike
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                    #10
                    Re: importing

                    I didn't know that csv was readable or the same as ascii. I am going to try that one.

                    Thanks for responding.

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                      #11
                      Re: importing

                      BINGO

                      The csv saved and the ascii picked it up so I have all the data.

                      THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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                        #12
                        Re: importing

                        One point on CSV and tab - They are text files, so if you have date/time fields or numerics fields it will import correctly into field those types providing the format is acceptable, hower If you are wanting to create a new table from the import they may be given a character field type on creation instead. In this case you can usually change to the proper type with no loss of data

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                          #13
                          Re: importing

                          THANK YOU.

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                            #14
                            Re: importing

                            Originally posted by SmartMLMer View Post
                            THANK YOU.
                            Bruce

                            Can you confirm that you have the Standard edition of Alpha 5 and there for you don't have and didn't try the Alpha DAO import?

                            From your postings here, you haven't mentioned whether you tried DAO.

                            For reference to others referring to this thread, I'm mentioning again that the Alpha DAO import works with the newer versions of Excel.
                            Al Buchholz
                            Bookwood Systems, LTD
                            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                            Occam's Razor - KISS
                            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                            Albert Einstein

                            http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                              Re: importing

                              I actually tried the Alpha DAO and found that it took me so far and no further.

                              But when I found out that the csv extension worked with ascii - I didn't know this - my problem was solved, so I don't know what would have happened with this idea if I could have done it differently or what...?

                              Thank you for responding.

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