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From: "Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS" <>
Subject: Re: [Clooz] Importing problem
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:18:18 -0500


Why don't you send me an attachment, a separate file not included in your
e-mail, of your data so I can take a look and see what's wrong.

At 01:19 AM 11/23/1999 +0000, Jerry Hale wrote:

>Thank you all for responding.
>
>Unfortunately that hasn't helped me. I eliminated the final hard
>return.
>
>I still get "A field name in the first row of your import file is
>invalid. Check spelling and capitalization."
>
>1) is there a file size limitation? I tried splitting the
>file into two, now I get the same error message on
>both halves!
>
>Here's my title line:
>
>Surname,Given,BirthYear,MarriageYear,DeathYear
>
>2) are there any spaces in the title line? I have tried it with a
>space between Birth and Year, Marriage and Year and
>between Death and Year and then without.
>
>I used WordPad to export the file in TXT format, thinking
>perhaps Word was doing something to the file.
>
>I also tried a title line of
>
>PersonID,Surname,Given,BirthYear,MarriageYear,DeathYear
>
>and put in a leading comma in front of each line (since
>I have no PersonID numbers.
>
>Nothing works.
>
> Jerry

Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS
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