>Hi Tore:
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>I'm back. In connection with your fix. I understand that you save the XLS format into a lower version (95 XLS) so it can successfully import. However some of the original values are change after import. Mostly those values that contains wildcard characters. Like it changes from '≥ 75.0%'into'? 75.0%'. Are there any way to retain the original value? I'm thinking this could be the 95 XLS version. It will not accept some wildcard characters.
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>Please advise.
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>thanks,
>Jan

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