[ic] HTML code comments

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Apr 2 12:51:00 2003


At 07:54 AM 4/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I am building my product database in Excel. What is the best way to add
>>large HTML code in the comment cells? Each time I try to export the
>>Excel file to a .txt file and import it to the IC database, I get
>>errors. It looks like the HTML code in the comment fields is messing up
>>the structure of the file.
>>Any ideas?
>>Best,
>>Vlad Kolarov
>
>There may be ways to get excel to work, but I know of 2 solutions that work.
>
>Import the data into M$ Access then export from there as tab-delimited 
>(with no text qualifier). Import that into IC. Or use 
>OpenOffice/Straoffice to export tab-delimited text.

A third way is outlined here: 
http://www.icdevgroup.org/~danb/ic_howto_excel.html


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