Hi Patrick,
Are you running 5.0 or 5.0.1? If I recall it correctly, we had a similar
problem with 5.0, but the problem went away by applying the service patch
"mi501p.exe", and upgrading it to 5.0.1. It think that was a tiny
programming glitch.
G' day
mansour shoari
Monopros limited
Toronto, Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick van der Deijl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 5:13 AM
> To: 'MAPINFO-L'
> Subject: MI: Import excel
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've a excel table which loses its last character in a characterfield
> when imported in MI 5.0
> No matter if the placename is short or long, the last character is
> lost.
> However, in MI 4.5 and 5.5 this problem does not occur.
>
> Who has experienced this strange phenomenon before and, better, has a
> solution. Of course you can export excel into dbase but this kind of
> detours are not a solution. And why does it works fine in MI 4.5 and
> 5.5?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick van der Deijl
>
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