Lion vs Snow Leopard and FMP 11 Advanced

#11

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In article <no.email-31D0F5.09302501122011 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org>,
David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:
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yourname-0112111327490001 (AT) 203-1...ide.ihug.co.nz>,
yourname (AT) yourisp (DOT) com (Your Name) wrote:

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FileMaker has (apparently) decided they want to abandon the ability to
export to the older .xls format, but you can still work around that by
exporting to CSV or tab-delimited text formats, which any version of Excel
will open and can then be re-saved as .xls.

It's not a completely unreasonable decision, since that's now what, two
full release versions out of date? Still getting security updates for
Office 2004 Mac, but that will cease in a couple of years I expect. And,
as you say, there's always comma or tab delimited Excel files.

It is completely unreasonable ... I'm still using Office 2001. ;o)

Given how even more horrible each new release of Office is to use (the
current one is awful), I'll probably still be using Office 2001 in another
10 years time.

That is actually the reason I am not upgrading to Lion - no Rosetta, no
Office 2004!

#12

David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

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It's not a completely unreasonable decision,

old .fmp7 bases can work since years with plenty of srcipts exporting
..xls files for many audit files to other systems.
And now, they will no more work when one of your users switch to Lion.
It's just a pity.

--
Philippe Manet
en fait, c'est manet avant @

#13

In article <1kbtybp.1j99v8d1rerm4kN%yapu (AT) invivo (DOT) edu>,
yapu (AT) invivo (DOT) edu (Philippe Manet) wrote:

Quote:

David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

It's not a completely unreasonable decision,

old .fmp7 bases can work since years with plenty of srcipts exporting
.xls files for many audit files to other systems.
And now, they will no more work when one of your users switch to Lion.
It's just a pity.

Why did you snip the bit where I mentioned the simple alternatives,
both of which are more transportable than XLS?

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