Exporting and importing to and from Excel

I find that the normal Notes export functions often are not adequate. Long text strings and formatted text often do not work. The same hold true for importing data.

The solution to all of these problems is to use Excel. Scripts have been written to use Excel for supporting this functionality.

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Some limitations of the export to 1-2-3 can be overcome by supplying a WK4 extension, but the 254-character cell limitation still exists, I believe.

There is a capability provided by Microsoft to add Excel option to the import/export options in Notes, but IBM does not support this "feature."

See Technote #164273 o...

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n the IBM Notes Technical Support Site.

D. Hasa has published a free script (ExportToExcel-Script v2) that can be used to export documents to Excel. Go to http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/85d5b6903071400e8525676d0079b3ae/e2a31b9d2a77f41685256b260050b64d?OpenDocument

The following is an example of a script to import an XLS file into Notes from a view:

Hopefully, IBM will add Excel Import/Export options by default, since 1-2-3 is no longer being upgraded, and current version have serious limitations.

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