>Hilmar,
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>What are the reasons that you use automation instead of APPEND FROM XLx? Were you experiencing problems with APPEND FROM or do you have to deal with special formatting? I have had occasional problems with APPEND FROM XL5/XL8 with certain spreadsheets. I was never able to know the exact reason, but had the impression it was linked to some accented characters.
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>Maybe you could save the spreadsheets as CSV or DBF and use APPEND FROM?
Thanks; I was already considering this: the old format was not appropriate for "save as DBF", but the new format can easily be copied to DBF. But still, I am concerned that automation doesn't always seem to work - I thought I could use it for an almost arbitrary format, where "save as DBF" doesn't work.
And it doesn't make much sense to me that the first automation works, and the second fails.
Hilmar.
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