Import from excel?

[Derek Atkins]

That assumes you even HAVE column headers.. You may not!  csv/tab
import is just hard, period.

The hardest part, IMHO, is the user interface to determine how to
interpret the columns, but there might be more complicated logic
as well (albeit unlikely).

-derek

Benoit Grégoire <bock at step.polymtl.ca> writes:

> On May 29, 2003 08:56 am, gikotim at bluemail.ch wrote:
> > Hi!
> > my credit-card company provides my monthly bill in Microsoft-Excel format
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Is there a way to import this stuff in gnucash?
> 
> Not untill someone writes a generic csv/tab delimited importer, which is far 
> from trivial.  Microsoft Excel files are not as standard and consistent 
> format, you have to interpret the column headers to know which field is what.
> 
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> Benoit Grégoire
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