[AccessD] Automating excel

I'm not even sure you can do that, John.  Excel has a nasty habit of
changing datatypes no matter what you want it to do.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:56 AM
To: AccessD
Subject: [AccessD] Automating excel


Has anyone ever automated Excel to save a spreadsheet as TRUE comma
delimited text?  My issue is that a client's client sends them data.  It
was comma delimited text.  Now it's a spreadsheet.  Spreadsheets SUCK
for data import since it is possible that the data will change datatypes
down the spreadsheet and that causes the import to fail without any
warning.

If I can automate excel to export that same spreadsheet, I suspect that
the result would just be text in all cases and so that "datatype change"
issue would disappear.

Has anyone ever done this?

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com


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