Re: Re: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS

Without the parsing, the columns will not ALIGN properly.

Hi Meovino, say hi to the group there at Estes.

This is Oludare.

-------Original Message-------
From: Jerome Draper <jdraper@trilosoft.com>
Sent: 02/07/03 01:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Re: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS

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> I don't think that's the issue.  Excel opens .csv files but presents the
parsing wizard so there's a process to complete before viewing the data in
excel/.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Lovelady <dlovelady@dtcc.com>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS


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> Hmmmm....
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> Wouldn't it be simpler to just change the Winblows file association for
> .CSV to open EXCEL?  Or is that too simplistic?
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> Dennis
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> "Lim Hock-Chai" <Lim.Hock-Chai@arch.com>@midrange.com on 02/07/2003
> 12:42:53 PM
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> The company I work for has the same problem of user do not want the file
in
> .csv format.  The reason is because when they double click on the
> attachment it will not automatically open up the file in execl.
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> Because the file view setting on most users pc is set to open any .dif
file
> using execl, I created a rpg program to convert the data into DIF format
> and e-mail it to the users and they seems to be pretty happy with the
> result.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leland, David [mailto:dleland@Harter.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS
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> The something missing is: when you want to have it run unattended, maybe
> even in batch, and not worry about a PC interface.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Duane [mailto:djohnson@POWERMATE.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS
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>   OK, what am I missing here.  Is there some particular reason that you
> don't want to use Client Access File Transfer?  I use it to create XLS
> files, and it works great.
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