July 29, 2009

When saving excel as DBF 3 (dBASE III) *.dbf, characters are missing


Problem: Some characters are missing in dbf file


It happens because when document in excel is saved (save as: DBF 3 (dBASE III) *.dbf) , there should be enough space in cells.
Later, if these data are imported in program such as print labels, characters will be missing because they are already missing in converted data from excel.

1 comment:

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