User Manual DATA-VIEW DATA-EDIT 1.0 - ETIS plus

DATA-VIEW & DATA-EDIT User ManualExcel 2003 supports the use of 2007 files, but applies a file conversion to able touse the file; a message as shown in Figure 3-12 will appear. The user willexperience no problem when working with this converted file; it can be editedand saved as usual, just take note that the file extension will remain .xslx.Figure 3-12: Office 2003 File conversion messageMS Excel 2000 and older versions are not supported. There are convertersavailable on the internet to cope with this problem and we expect users of Excel2000 to have experienced more issues when using old versions of Excel and tobe familiar with the converters. If this should pose a large problem, the user canalways rely on the Access 2000 or the other formats to export / check out data.3.5.5 Other file formatsFormats such as ASCII are not available directly in DATA-EDIT since the freeediting nature of the formats makes them very sensitive to errors during thecheck-out-check-in process. If required, the user can convert these formats fromthe Excel or txt file and use them at his discretion. Keep in mind that whenchecking in the file, it needs be in one of the supported formats and thedefinitions need to conform precisely to the check out!For acquiring a wide range of alternative formats Excel supports saving the fileas another format by using the ‘Save as’ option where a dialogue will bepresented as in Figure 3-13. From this dialogue the user can select a wide rangeof text or other type formats.Figure 3-13: Save Excel file as other format3.5.6 General remarks on data editingA remark on filling in data values (in general for any file format): A data field filled with a “0” (zero value) is considered to be a value andwill be entered to the database as such;August 22, 2012 29