Re: [off] File will not open in excel

2017-12-16 Thread Tom Dillon via 4D_Tech
Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech wrote: >I'm guessing this as a feature requested by the corporate IT types long >ago so they could dump out data from databases in text format and have >their users easily open them in Excel. > >It macOS version of Excel used to do this but it appears they have >removed

[off] File will not open in excel

2017-12-16 Thread Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech
On Dec 16, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Chip Scheide wrote: > Got a file which claims to be an excel file (.xls) but will not open as > an excel spreadsheet (Mac Office 2011 Excel) > When the file opens in excel, it is opened as if it was a plain text > file, when opened in Windows Office 2010 Excel it

Re: [off] File will not open in excel

2017-12-16 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 16 déc. 2017 à 04:37, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a > écrit : > > [...] > > if Excel is capable of opening the file it will open it as a spreadsheet > regardless of the extension. > if it opens it like a text file, the Excel version is simply too old. I've noticed