Excel to AppleWorks question

[Guy Kudlemyer]

Hello:

I maintain several small Excel databases on my non-Intel Mac Mini (OSX
1.4.9). I also use AppleWorks 6 to convert them to the AppleWorks format so
they are readable by other Mac users who don't have access to Excel.

After conversion from Excel to AppleWorks, I find that many of the entries
are corrupted by a lengthy series of question marks (as in
???????????????????????)

I find that most of the time, these question marks are preceded by some sort
of punctuation; perhaps a semi-colon, a close quotes, or a parenthesis.

Because many of the other Mac users who download my databases find this to
be at least moderately annoying, I'm wondering if there is a fix that can
keep this from happening.

Does anyone have any ideas that might be insightful here?

I thank you in advance for your assistance!

--Guy
Thurston, OR

 

[John Halloran]

Hello:

I maintain several small Excel databases on my non-Intel Mac Mini (OSX
1.4.9). I also use AppleWorks 6 to convert them to the AppleWorks format so
they are readable by other Mac users who don't have access to Excel.

After conversion from Excel to AppleWorks, I find that many of the entries
are corrupted by a lengthy series of question marks (as in
???????????????????????)

I find that most of the time, these question marks are preceded by some sort
of punctuation; perhaps a semi-colon, a close quotes, or a parenthesis.

Because many of the other Mac users who download my databases find this to
be at least moderately annoying, I'm wondering if there is a fix that can
keep this from happening.

Does anyone have any ideas that might be insightful here?

Have you looked at any of the other file formats that you can save files
in while working in Excel?

If you saved a file as HTML for example, would that work in your
situation?

 

[gimme_this_gimme_that]

Could be a long string is overrunning the maximum column length for
it.