I encountered this recently and battled with it for a while trying older versions of XLS - but still got some curly results.
I found it easier to just save the XL file to TXT tab delimited and bring it in that way. Far safer in my opinion. Tina -----Original Message----- From: Pete Theisen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 9:52 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Interesting XLS File G Gambill wrote: > I have been sent an XLS file that I can't import with the Import Fromm > command. I have tried type XLS, type XL5 and type XL8 all with no success. > I keep getting an error that the Microsoft Excell fils is invalid. > > It will open with OenOffice.org. > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
