Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Friday 05 December 08 12:32 GMT (UK)
Welcome Home Help Shop Search Calendar Login Register
Search Images Online
 
  First Name(s)
Last Name
 
News: Ad: Search the 1901 England Census FREE now  with transcriptions and images

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  General
| |-+  The Common Room
| | |-+  Technical Help (Moderator: Ticker)
| | | |-+  Transferring data from one programme to another
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Transferring data from one programme to another  (Read 146 times)
joboy
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 694


Welcome to OZ
Transferring data from one programme to another
« on: Friday 24 February 06 05:15 GMT (UK) »
I have been using a free programme known as 602PC Suite which has great similarities to Excel.
The free updates for 602 will no longer be available after the end of next month (March).
Since installing 602 several years ago I have installed Excel and as the 602 data is not recognized by Excel I cannot use Excel to open them (whilst I can still (at least for the present ) access them with 602).
What I want to do is move all (and there are many) my 602 Spreadsheets over to Excel.
I can copy them and transfer OK ........... BUT ......... as I have a lot of 'comments (notes)' attached to individual cells, the copying and transferring does not accommodate (include) these comments.
There must be a way around this ........... manually copying so many notes would take so terribly long.
Any thoughts ........ please,
joboy
Logged
Guy Etchells
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 923



WWW
Re: Transferring data from one programme to another
« Reply #1 on: Friday 24 February 06 07:14 GMT (UK) »
It is supposed to support DBS and CSV formats. Try saving your spreadsheets in those formats and opening in Excel
Cheers
Guy
Logged
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells   The site that gives you facts not promises!
http://www.framland.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Tombstones & Monumental Inscriptions.
joboy
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 694


Welcome to OZ
Re: Transferring data from one programme to another
« Reply #2 on: Friday 24 February 06 07:30 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Guy ......... I will let you know how I go with your suggestion.
joboy
Logged
joboy
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 694


Welcome to OZ
Re: Transferring data from one programme to another
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 02 March 06 04:16 GMT (UK) »
Hello Guy ...... I thought I should let you know this.
I have been doing all manner of things to get the comments (or notes as I call them) and I found by going to 'save' with each of them this message came up;
******************************************
'This file has been created using a later version of Excel.
There is a remote possibility that certain workbook properties to the later version may be lost if you save the file in this version.
If you dont want to preserve the original file,click cancel then rename the file to the new version using the 'save as' command.
Continue saving?'
So I clicked OK to continue saving and up came another dialogue box saying;
'This file is a Microsoft Excel 5.0/95 workbook.Do you want to overwrite it with the latest Excel format?'
So I clicked OK and when next I opened the file all the comments were included.
*******************************************
How this came about I have no idea ............ unless the 602 original file was perhaps based upon the Excel 5.0/95 format.
Anyway ........ all is now well and thank you so much for your interest.
Joe
Logged
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Free RootsChat Webspace] [Your Surname Interests] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT
0.148:21