Re: Double-click emailed AS400-created file and open up in Excel,automagically

How often?

Is it rare enough that the users don't mind fixing the one time per year 
it occurs versus paying you to address that rarity?

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




Dan <dbcemid@yahoo.com>
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open up in Excel, automagically


That was me, Scott.

Only problem with csv, with the double quotes used to enclose character
fields, is that we'll get double quote characters as data, and that
creates havoc with the data when Excel converts it.

- Dan

--- Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> wrote:
> 
> The original poster (sorry, I don't remember who) wanted something
> that
> will automatically open in Excel.
> 
> Personally, I recommend CSV.


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