Eric, I did. I also removed all cell borders, and bold and italicized fonts, etc., leaving a plain Jane version. Saving the data as dBase 3 file gave me the same result -- truncation of text longing than 28 characters. Has anybody experienced the same thing?
Stan Loo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric M. Bienstock, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:12 AM Subject: Re: dBase 4 File > >All text longer than 28 got truncated. > > Stan, > Before selecting and saving the records in Excel, be sure to maximize the > width of each column. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Eric M. Bienstock, Ph.D. > Database Development, etc. > Authorized R:BASE Developer > Eric M. Bienstock & Associates, Inc. > day: 212-978-7948 eve: 973-763-8650(8) > FAX: 775-254-2109 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.home.net/ericmb/Ericmb.htm > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: suredata > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:56 PM > Subject: dBase 4 File > > I saved some Excel data as a dBase 4 file. Both column names and data were > selected before saving in dBase 4 format. After successfully attaching the > file in RBase for Windows 6.5++, I discovered that the maximum text column > length was only 28. All text longer than 28 got truncated. Is this a dBase > 4 limit, or something else? > > Thanks. > > Stan Loo > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
