Lene,
What about comma separated values, cvs? I believe Quickbooks can import
those. I know that OpenOffice.org and Excel can export in that format.
Lene T wrote:
Never mind, it seems like it's a compatibility issue (or lack thereof). I need
to figure out how the document needs to be set up in order for Quickbooks to be
able to import it. I'm looking for a bookkeeper to help me out with it. In
fact, an accountant told me today that he never recommends importing from excel
(as is the only option with Qbooks) becasue it can cause too many problems and
it may not transfer properly.
However, there now is another question since I've downloaded the latest
version. My .xls documents can no longer be opened directly unless I save them
in the openoffice format. But that doesn't seem to be a problem on my laptop
which is also updated (although that one had the 2.4 version previously).
Also, can the open office formats (calc) now be read by computers that are
using microsoft excel? I know that I always had to save any document in their
format for them to be able to read it. And there were still noticable
formatting differences noticed.
Thanks.
Lene (:~]
--- On Sun, 6/21/09, Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:
On 21/06/2009 01:11, Twayne wrote:
Lene,
Perhaps trying to rephrase your question would be a good idea. I at least
cannot decide what it is you're asking for. In fact, I don't see the
connection between importing quickbooks into Excel and OO.o unless you meant
Calc, not Excel. And auto-upgrading Calc (or Excel) would be a function of
Quickbooks, if it even does that; I'm not aware there is any such thing
available but I could be mistaken; it's been awhile since I used QB.
One of the first things you should probably do is update to OO.o version 3.1 as
there have been a LOT of fixes and improvements in it. But mostly I think you
need your question to be more precise about what you want to accomplish.
HTH,
Twayne`
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I have OpenOffice 2.0 on my home computer and there are some 'excel'
files that I'm trying to import into Quickbooks. It doesn't recognize
it. Will updating to the latest version solve the problem? And I
suppose I will have to copy & paste the info into the updated template?!?
Is there also a way to get set up so that I have the option to automatically update OpenOffice when new versions come out? I also have 3 of the OpenOffice systems on my laptop. It is an ASUS that only has 4GB to run everything. So if there are downloads, can I automatically just update the ones that I have on it at present? (Actually, come to think of it, I believe I put it on my external harddrive, but I still limited it to the 3. I think parts of it are still connected into the main computer).
Your help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Lene (:~]
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