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Older versions may have done this, but newer versions will just open CSV's
with no intervention. Problem is, there's no way to format the cell as
text in a CSV. At least, that's my problem.
Mike E.
"Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com>
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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
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From: Dennis Lovelady <dlovelady@dtcc.com>
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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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> Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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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
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> 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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