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Dane Dane is offline
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Default Calling Excel Import wizard from DOS

hi Tom
maybe I misunderstand your point. However we do wish to use Excel and the
incorporated Text Import Wizard.
But mayby you are talking about how to call the API?
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Dane


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

That part of Excel interfaces to ODBC. I think you want to use ODBC rather
than Excel. You might search google for ODBC to see how you might use it.

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Tom Ogilvy


"Dane" wrote:

We wish to call the Excel Import wizard also called <import External data
function
from a DOS command and thereby format the txt file via the wizard.

The command will be called from an AS400 server.

Can anybody help
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Dane