Truncated field name

[Aditya]

Hi all,

I have a FM DB, I want to export to excel so that users can use it in the way they want after I process the data from the FM5.5. The problem I am facing is while exporting the data all field names are truncated to 8 characters, I have tried all possible formats but could not solve the problem.

Hope you will have solution of this problem,

Thanks in advance

[LiveOak]

What platform are you on?

What version of FM are you using?

What export format have you selected?

What version of Excel are you using?

-bd

[Aditya]

I am using Mac OS X

File Maker Pro 5.5

Excel 2001

and I have tried all options to export but only DBF option exported the headers that too truncated.

Thanks

[marija]

Anybody ever come across a solution for this?

[Kurt Knippel]

Try exporting as a Merge file. This is basically a comma seperated file, but exports the full field names as the first record.

It is not so much a Filemaker problem, as it is that these other data formats only allow for an 8 character field name.