>>Hi
>>I am trying to copy data from an excel spreadsheet to a DBF table. The excel has (simplied) three columns:
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>>Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
>>21 Main Street, Atp 12 John Smith Boston, MA 02022
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>>If I save this excel to CSV command delimted then I have tough time to append from the CSV into a DBF since the comma withint each column "breaks" things. If I save this excel as tab delimited then more than one column goes into the DBF field. How would you suggeste I save as this spreadsheet and append into a dbf?
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>Delimited by tabs.
I tried that. But when I then append from this - tab delimited - file, more than one column goes to the DBF field. Do you have to create the DBF with fields that match the length of the column in spreadsheet exactly?
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