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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:16:11 -0500, Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) <lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Personally, we've had very few complaints about providing CSV files. You're lucky, as we've had a ton of them. If Excel sees a field in a CSV file with nothing but numbers in it, it treats it as a numeric (even if you put the value in quotes). Not good when you're sending files with zip codes in them (New Jersey's zips begin with zeros). I'm not sure how it treats tab-delimited files, perhaps it deals with them better. We bought Kemetech's conversion utilities (www.kemetech.com). Pretty cheap and they work well. We later bought SEQUEL from ASC which also has Excel export capability. If you have a Java guy around, I'd check out the HSSF/POI stuff. That'll give you control over the output far beyond anything a conversion utility can give you. Mike E.
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