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Easiest way to do multiple changes
I want to go back and insert contact email names in all of the links in links.db. What is the easiest way to do this. I assume there is a quicker way than to just use the links Admin function to modify each record. Can I use Excel? How do I make sure it doesn't change the data format, etc.
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Well, I haven't looked at it but the bd file is a flat database, so you can probably edit it in a text editor.

Let us know how it goes. I'm interested if it works.
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Open it up in Microsoft Excel. Replace all the variable. Save it as a tab-delimited file. Open that file inwrodpad and replace all tabs with a |

Very simple.

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Hmm, everything went ok, except it placed all of the descriptions within quotes. I will try this again, there has to be a way to stop that.