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- From: 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu (Tom Buskey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Excel --> ascii question!
- Message-ID: <12100z-260193102525@kip-sn-12.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:34:17 GMT
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- In article <1k24ltINNjof@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg
- Cook|xxxxxx) wrote:
- >
- > When I save an excel file as text, it saves it as TAB delimited ascii. I
- > need to import some information into a program that requires COMMA delimited
- > ascii. How in the world do I do this????
- >
- > I need the form like: "Field 1","Field 2","Field 3", etc. etc.
- >
- > Thanks for your help! (Using excel 4.0)
- >
-
- From book 2, chapter 3 page 147 (indexed as File formats - RTFM)
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- Excel 4.0 has 6 text formats:
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- Text standard TAB delimited
- CSV commas seperated values
-
- and the above targeted for DOS character set, windows character set, or
- macintosh character set.
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- Tom Buskey 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu
-