It will not let me append from the XLS file to a cursor or a table. It tells me that the XLS file is not a table.

>Import the xls to a temporary cursor using append from. The cursor should have two EXTRA columns of type "date" which will remain empty after append.
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>Replace the values in the extra columns with char values converted to date.
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>Append from the temporary cursor to the final table
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>The extra columns should have the same name as the date columns in the final table.