Import an Excel spreadsheet

[Richard J. Kulda]

Great pointer for me. I (Richard) do have MS Word. Tried it out on  
your suggestion. It Excel opened just fine. Danke

Richard
.
On May 29, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Michael wrote:

> Denise
>
> Do you have MS Word?  If no Excel, then probably no Word.  If not,
> what WP or text apps do you have?
>
> michael
>
> On 29/05/2008, at 5:23 PM, Kurt J. Meyer wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 29.05.2008 um 05:31 schrieb Richard J. Kulda:
>>
>>> A client sent me an .xls spread sheet. My Finder suggests that I
>>> received it just fine. I do not have Excel. In the past I've had
>>> difficult but successful episodes getting the client to send me a
>>> Text
>>> format version of the spread sheet. It would be imprudent of me to
>>> impose this trial on the client. I've tried to use the Excel Import
>>> Wizard. Nothing works.
>>
>> The Wizard's instructions say it clearly: You have to have Excel open
>> and to make a selection in the Excel spreadsheet in order to import
>> these selected cells into a Panorama database. No Excel -- no use for
>> the Excel Import Wizard.
>>
>>> I'm hoping to have my copy of iWork working
>>> soon. (I think I have a faulty CD.) Since the Finder keeps trying to
>>> use Numbers to open my Excel document, I'm guessing it will. Then my
>>> problem will be solved.
>>
>> Numbers is able to open Excel documents (if formulas are not too
>> complicated) and can then export them as .csv files. These are comma-
>> separated text files, and you can open them in Panorama just as you
>> would do with tab-separated text files.
>>
>> (Since Numbers contains a lot of complex templates containing several
>> tables and charts on one page, you should only export one simple
>> table at a time that fits in Panorama's Data Sheet. If your Excel
>> document contains more than one spreadsheet, you should export them
>> separately.)
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Kurt J. Meyer
>> Cologne, Germany
>>
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