Comments on: ND8.5 – Enable Import for Lotus 1-2-3 files

By: Siti Rahimah Abdul Halim

Siti Rahimah Abdul Halim — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:11:27 +0000

Yes!!!..tried so many times… and it’s just a piece of cake when i added the viewimp6.

Thank you so much!!

By: Mark B

Mark B — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:17:51 +0000

Wasted a whole morning trying to figure out why this was no longer available. a 10 minute job has taken 4 hours and a reconfigure of software…thanks IBM…maybe the engineers should try using their products in the real world….don’t just remove features without giving us an alternative. If the CSV import or tab import actually worked as well as the 1-2-3 import, we would gladly use that.

I can understand why Microsoft would stop supporting a rivals software that is no longer an active product, but IBM you have no excuses.

Thanks for this article.

By: Melissa Snell

Melissa Snell — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Thanks very much for this. Solved an issue in 8.5. Apparently fixed in 8.5.1 though. What we really need is import/export to Symphony spreadsheet and Excel as part of the native product!

By: wendy Ross

wendy Ross — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:17:42 +0000

Thanks for this tip. Been trying to import from excel with no success. Had converted the file to Lotus 1-2-3 and still coudn’t import. I even tried converting the file to Symphony without success. Added this line and it worked. Unfortunately the Free import tool isn’t free anymore….

By: Mark Demicoli

Mark Demicoli — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:47:03 +0000

To add to the hair pulling, Office 2007 doesn’t export to WK* anymore. But I remembered coming across a fantastic FREE Notes import tool… works like a charm!

http://www.agecom.com.au/agecom.nsf/0/6B4FC5E820C6C07ACA2571530027906D?OpenDocument

By: Michael Bennett

Michael Bennett — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:19:50 +0000

As a user of the Real Symphony with .WR1 files, my only problem is in printing, which requires the old style 25 point plug and an ancient printer. Is there any way of getting the Real Symphony to recognize and use a USB printer?

By: Damiano Bramati

Damiano Bramati — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:55:47 +0000

The same issue for the export function, add this line to notes.ini :

VIEWEXP6=Lotus 1-2-3,0,_XWKS,,.123,.WK1,.WK3,.WK4,.WKS,.WR1,.WRK,,4,

By: Christopher Byrne

Christopher Byrne — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:18:34 +0000

@Simon: then add support for Excel files! Whatever happened to 100% backward compatibility????

Thanks Ulrich!

By: Ulrich Krause

Ulrich Krause — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:21:08 +0000

By: dietrich

dietrich — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:38:17 +0000

ray’s comment is spot on. I found the same thing when Microsoft stopped supporting 1-2-3 spreadsheets.

Exporting a categorised view with totals and subtotals can only be accurately done using Lotus 1-2-3.