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Old May 6th, 2005, 08:34 PM
thebyrds thebyrds is offline
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creating song book problem

When I go to create a song book after converting my mp3+g zip's. I view through Microsoft Excel 2000. I get a whole page full of something that looks like someone just went crazy on the keyboard. Any clue of what is going on? I have followed the manual.
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Old May 7th, 2005, 06:58 AM
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Re: creating song book problem

The Songbook.rtf file is in Rich Text Format.

Excel does not directly open an RTF file. Thus, you must first open it in Word or Wordpad, then export it in the format "Text only with line breaks (*.txt)"

When you open this in Excel, accept the defaults. When the file opens, move the column widths so they show the text in each field without overwriting fields to the right.

When trying to open a file in a different format than a program accepts, you will always see the "gibberish" that you saw. In a case like this, you will always need to use another program that opens the original file, and use it to export to a format the other program (Excel in this case) can open.
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Old May 7th, 2005, 02:19 PM
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Re: creating song book problem

See this thread:
http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?...=external+data

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