Brenna, Thank you. I have tried export to CSV (Word document) and it works well. I imagine I just then save the Word document as Excel. Or I can send it to Arnold and let him and his printer manage it, which might be better. I have always disliked Excel because of its appearance and jargon. Jane On 2/10/2016 12:30 PM, Brenna Green wrote: > Jane, > > This is more likely a problem with your database program's export to excel > function, unfortunately. If you have the option to export to CSV (comma > separated values) I'd try doing that, seeing if the column A information is > kept, and then open that file in excel. > > Which database program do you use? > > good luck. > > Brenna > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I hope there is someone reading this who is expert in using Excel. I use a >> different database program, but from time to time I supply membership lists >> to the treasurer and BX manager in Excel. When I export the records to >> Excel, there is a problem. The members' surnames appear in Column A, and >> the first names in Column B. When two members have the same surname, Excel >> drops the second record. This doesn't happen when I export the records to >> rtf or Word. Is there a way of making Excel accept records with identical >> data in Column A? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jane McGary >> Membership Coordcinator, PBS >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >