st: Re: Creating a macro for files

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Thanks to Friedrich for this clarification. His advice may be  
platform-specific. I have no access to Windows Excel.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Friedrich wrote:


> Excel (at least version 2003) does not expect a binary file. A
> tab-delimited text file with the suffix .xls is opened by Excel
> without problems. In fact, saving tab-delimited text files as .xls
> with -outsheet- is a convenient shortcut that makes it possible to
> open such files in Excel by double-clicking them in Windows Explorer.
> It is not necessary to start Excel first and then go to File - Open
> to run the import wizard.
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