Automagic and Excel 2003

[FrightfulTales]

Anyone,

I have excel 2003 on my laptop, and whenever I try to import the .xml file into automagic I get a bad or corrupt error. I can do it fine on my desktop at home running excel 2000. I couldn't find a thread on the forums, has anyone run into this problem, and if so, does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks,

Chris

[sibroc]

Just rename the .xml file to .txt

It should work fine

Symeon

[FrightfulTales]

A strange fix, but it works, so I won't complain. Thanks for the info.

[Clint]

It's something to do with the latest version of Office and Excel.

Clint

[MJG]

I am having the same problem. I tried renaming the xml file but it didn't work.
Could you please explain how you renamed the file.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

[reklan]

If you right click on the xml file under windows explorer (or even My Computer), you should get a small menu with an option rename.

Select this and change the file name from 'g001n02t003.xml' to 'g001n02t003.txt' the you can import the turn as normal under Excel.

Dave

[Assiniboine]

I'm using Excel 2004 (for Mac) and I get the same sort of message, but it gives me the option to import as text, which works about 2/3 of the time. I didn't have this problem with my ancient version of Excel.

[mendeni]

Microsoft have changed the way they use xml with thier schema in Excel 2003 and above, which is causing these problems.

[Assiniboine]

Now that I've run a few more turns I'm finding that my latest Excel version crashes at two points...xml import and send turn button. Usually no problem as the data backup is decent, but a bit frustrating.

[donvant]

I'm having the same problem. 17 turns ran like clockwork, now I can't imput my xml. I tried changing the xml to txt, no go. Anybody got any other ideas? Thanks.

Don