CompuServe Messages

Wayne, I imported the line and it came in as you would (presumably) want it too; the quoted string in A1, author in B2, etc. Interestingly, 12-13-91 was recognized as a date! It shows in the cell as "Dec-13-91" and in the cell contents box as 5094 (the PCalc's internal datevalue for that date) so you _could_ do date arithmetic with the cell; i.e. search for memos older than 14 days, etc. The two ending numbers were numeric cells; if you wanted them as strings, you'd need the quotes (same for the date). It's pretty smart. I changed "author" to "memo author" expecting that the two words would appear in different cells. But no, both words appeared in B1. So although there is no "ignore quotes" option (at least in my gamma), it does seem pretty forgiving of them. One more note that may be important: When I changed "123.22" to "123.22-12", I wound up with "123.22" as a value. This is just what you'd get if you entered it from the keyboard. Any expression is considered a formula and must be preceeded by a "=". You _can_ enter such an expression and calc it in the edit box, though. As noted above, there may be some differences in the release version. Malcolm