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Old 09-01-2009, 07:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BaseballMan View Post
I tried it both ways and neither way will work.
Im just trying to convert the era-ballpark text file into excel and then be able to convert it back to the same way it was in the database folder.
I could be converting it to excel wrong but i can see all the data there but it
wont convert it back to the way it was as a notepad text file.
Would access be better?
The easiest way is to save the file from excel as an MS-DOS comma delimited file (.csv). Then exit excel and just change the .csv extension to .txt.
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