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    Excel 4.0

    Is there a patch or plan that will allow the Excel export utility, which I love, to export in a newer version of Excel, and if not....why not?
    Clive
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    RE: Excel 4.0

    The ODBC Import Genie can import from newer versions of Excel.

    Excel can save as DBF which you can then use directly in Alpha Five

    Alpha Five client/server will be able to import from any ADO/ODBC data source and therefore import from newer versions of Excel.

    Lenny Forziati
    Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
    Alpha Software Corporation

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      #3
      RE: Excel 4.0

      Thanks for the response....
      My question was about exporting. When exporting to Excel it exports in version 4 and then gives you the option of saving in a newer version...certainly not the end of the earth, just a trivial pain.

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        #4
        RE: Excel 4.0

        Sorry, I misread the question. The client/server will be able to do the export for you.

        Lenny Forziati
        Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
        Alpha Software Corporation

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          #5
          RE: Excel 4.0

          I have code which is a derivation of some I have posted in the code archive which will open a named (passed as a parameter) excel document (which your current version of excel can handle) and save it as another (passed as a parameter) version. If you will specify what version you wish to save as, I will post the suitable code (function). You could then have a button which

          1. ran the export
          2. opened the exported file and saved it to the same name but in the specified version
          There can be only one.

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            RE: Excel 4.0

            As threatened.....


            'Date Created: 09-Jan-2003 08:35:07 PM
            'Last Updated: 09-Jan-2003 08:37:17 PM
            'Derived from code Created By : John Magno - http://www.JohnMagno.com
            'Tweaked, stretched, and mangled By : Stan Mathews
            FUNCTION excel_to_ver AS L (excelname AS C, newname AS C, ver = -4143 as N)
            Dim xlApp as p
            dim myCell as c
            xlApp = ole.create("Excel.Application")
            xlApp.Workbooks.Open(excelname)
            xlapp.DisplayAlerts = .F.
            xlApp.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(newname,ver)
            xlApp.Workbooks.Close()
            xlapp.DisplayAlerts = .T.
            xlApp.Quit()
            END FUNCTION

            'to call the function, use the examples below
            'excel_to_ver("c:\book1.xls","c:\book4.xls") 'optional third parameter is defaulted to Microsoft Excel Workbook (*.xls)
            'or excel_to_ver("c:\book1.xls","c:\book4.xls",43) 'saves as Excel 97-2002 & 5.0/95 Workbook (*.xls)
            'some other versions are Text (Windows) 20, Excel 9795 43, Excel 4.0 33
            'if the function is used to convert from Excel to another file type, the extension of the 'newname'
            'should match the new type
            'if converting to DBF4 (*.dbf) (ver parameter 11) the first line of the spreadsheet should contain the fieldnames
            'and the records should begin immediately below with no blank rows, empty cells in a row are allowed
            'data which is inconsistent with the field type established by the value in the first data cell in
            'a column seems to be ignored
            'Not all possible combinations of from and to field types have been tested
            'with excel versions it appears that excelname (original file) and newname (new file name)
            'can be the same (just converts the filetype without changing the name)
            There can be only one.

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