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Old June 14th, 2004, 12:47 PM
Paul Masters
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I am trying to save a spreadsheet into dbase (dbf) format
but find that cell contents and headers are truncated in
the created file.

any ideas would be gratfully received!

Paul



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Old June 14th, 2004, 01:53 PM
Frank Kabel
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Hi Paul
are the contents truncated after 255 characters?

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Paul Masters wrote:
I am trying to save a spreadsheet into dbase (dbf) format
but find that cell contents and headers are truncated in
the created file.

any ideas would be gratfully received!

Paul

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Old June 14th, 2004, 03:06 PM
Paul
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If only it were that easy!

Using office 2003, I find that cells are truncated at
10chars.
Back in excel 5 I get a max of 40.
Very odd!

Thanks
Paul.


-----Original Message-----
Hi Paul
are the contents truncated after 255 characters?

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


Paul Masters wrote:
I am trying to save a spreadsheet into dbase (dbf)

format
but find that cell contents and headers are truncated in
the created file.

any ideas would be gratfully received!

Paul

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Old June 15th, 2004, 01:48 AM
Dave Peterson
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Try widening the columns.

I changed the font to Courier New so that I could just autofit the columns.

Paul Masters wrote:

I am trying to save a spreadsheet into dbase (dbf) format
but find that cell contents and headers are truncated in
the created file.

any ideas would be gratfully received!

Paul


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