Subject Re: Tab Delimited From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:37:54 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:11:41 +0200, Rob Rickard <rob@nospam.com.au> wrote: > Hi Mervyn > That's great news, I check the forum before I start work so when I   > create the database for that file I will include a memo field. I'm   > fairly sure that it will need one just by looking at it last night.   > Would you suggest character field for the dates because at this stage I   > don't need to do anything with them and I believe I should be able to   > convert them if I did. > One again I really appreciate the help. As you say, it is easy enough to convert the dates at a later stage if you   need to and for the moment anyway keeping them as characters is simpler. Mervyn.