Hopefully this is an easy-to-answer question.

When I try to import records from an Excel worksheet, the FM tables in the
Target drop-down box are grayed out. I think this has worked before - not so
sure why it won't now.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Freddy <none [at] none.com> wrote:

> Any assistance is appreciated.

FMP version and OS ?
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In article <20070818100124401371 [at] [10.0.1.1]>, pmanet [at] invivo.edu (manet)
wrote:

> Freddy <none [at] none.com> wrote:
>
> > Any assistance is appreciated.
>
> FMP version and OS ?

Also what version of Excel may be an important factor. The newest
Windows versions of Word, Excel, etc. have brand new file formats that
may well cause problems, but this should be fairly easy to solve by
using "Save As" and re-saving the file to an older format.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Filemaker 8, Excel 2000, Windows XP Pro SP2.

>>
>> FMP version and OS ?
>
> Also what version of Excel may be an important factor. The newest
> Windows versions of Word, Excel, etc. have brand new file formats that
> may well cause problems, but this should be fairly easy to solve by
> using "Save As" and re-saving the file to an older format.
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

In article <WN6dnbkygIJmMljbnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d [at] giganews.com>, "Freddy"
<none [at] none.com> wrote:

> Hopefully this is an easy-to-answer question.
>
> When I try to import records from an Excel worksheet, the FM tables in the
> Target drop-down box are grayed out. I think this has worked before - not so
> sure why it won't now.
>
> Any assistance is appreciated.

The only reason I can think of is that the databse is "locked" /
read-only so can't import records. This can happen on Windows PCs if
the file has been transferred via CD or of course if you don't have the
correct access privileges.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)