Jane wrote 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... The most likely to succeed solution is to export to CSV as plain ASCII text, and not as a Word document. Just about every database, spreadsheet and plain text editor program in the world, released in the last 20 years, can read a plain text ASCII CSV file. Not that many will open a Word document. In the export dialog box, tell your program to separate fields with a tab, and tell it to export to a plain text file with extension .CSV . If all fields have only characters found on a standard US keyboard, select ASCII encoded, plain text. If any of the fields has characters not found on a standard US keyboard, for example, diacritics such as ñ , select some variety of Unicode or UTF-8 encoding, and tell Arnold which you chose. Just about every database, spreadsheet and plain text editor program in the world, released in the last 5-10 years, can read any flavor of Unicode or UTF-8 encoded plain text CSV. Then send then send the CSV file to Arnold as an E-mail attachment, or via a cloud file service such as Dropbox. By exporting with a tab separating fields, it becomes incredibly easy to import to a spreadsheet. This can be done with the import commands. Or, the recipient can open the CSV file with a plain text editor, such as Windows Notepad or Mac Text, not with a word processor; highlight the entire document; copy to clipboard; and, paste into a spreadsheet. All the fields will paste in the proper rows and columns (if they were originally in the proper positions.) When importing to a database one merely tells the database to import the CSV file and specifies tabs are the separators. Leo Martin Zone 9? Phoenix Arizona USA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/