Microsoft KB Archive/30886

Loading Print File Back into Multiplan PSS ID Number: Q30886 Article last modified on 01-10-1989 PSS database name: D_MPlan

2.x 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.04

MS-DOS

Summary: Performing a Print File results in writing a copy of the current spreadsheet to a disk in a columnar ASCII file format. To load a file back into Multiplan Version 3.00, 3.01, 3.02, or 3.04, execute a Transfer Import command and specify “^S” (space) as the delimiter. To load a file back into Multiplan Version 2.x, use the CONVERTD utility that is provided, as follows:


 * 1) Change the file from a columnar ASCII file into a Multiplan SYLK file.
 * 2) Load the SYLK file into Multiplan by changing the Transfer Options field to Symbolic.

In Versions 2.x and 3.00, 3.01, 3.02, and 3.04, it may be necessary to first load the ASCII file into a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, to remove any page breaks or special formatting that the process of printing the file to disk may have embedded in the file. Please note that when the file is printed to a disk, the only information that the file will contain is the displayed values and characters that were originally displayed on the screen in the individual cells. The formulas that generated those values and text will be lost.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1989.