RE: MS Excel ====>> iSeries. -- JAVA400-L

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Subject: RE: MS Excel ====>> iSeries.
From: "Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:07:31 -0700
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> is there an easy way to make the end users adhere to proper formatting of the 
> data?

Are you serious? In Excel? Well, I suppose if you provided them with a 
locked-down template with sufficient macros, you could possibly do that. But if 
you're just talking about the situation where they start with a blank 
spreadsheet and key in data, then no. It's strictly GIGO in that case.

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