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Don't apologise - I personally am delighted you did - it has been a fascinating cultural exchange lesson. Anyway the thread was under Water Cooler so it's the sort of way these discussion around the watercolour go in real life.

Two problems here - an item can more than one shelf price in UK(for instance if you are using a Loyalty Card) and in the USA, the shelf price is normally pre-tax so it's not what you pay at the till anyway (usage and tax rates vary by state).

Yours sounds excellent process to me. And that's where it all falls down for the USA and the UK. People just are not willing to engage in security. They just flash their contactless card and wander off. No idea what they have been actually charged and far worse, no interest. Indeed talking to...

Having driven round the Magic Roundabout many times I have to say it very easy to use.

Yes you do but sometimes vendors don't want to or try and just send electronic one. I don't stand for it. The actual law is that for £5 or more they have to offer one, and for less they have to give one if asked. The real surprise is those people who don't want one! The law applies...

Agreed. And I understand now about bills - to Brits they are notes.

Generally I accept all the things you describe as being of of value to you but they aren't to me. A random few comments from my point of view. I use a mobile phone because it is mobile and a phone! I expect above all things for my phone to function as phone. I have never stated I don't like...

I have enjoyed this thread and the various views aired - I agree with a lot of this post but with a significant BUT! The discussion even with fixed positions is not worthless - it's a discussion where we can evaluate the other side of the argument. In passing I think your throwaway "most...

But can you recover from your backup store of everything that was on it? If so you are not the person on I was talking about.

Just to put things in perspective in the. UK in 2023 196,000 were s stolen worth £48.20M. That 22 an hour.

Just a thought in passing before I look further - how many records are in the csv files? Are the ones that are failing bigger than the others? That would explain why a single import works and multi file exports don't as the processing needs a finite minimum time to reset.

"Also, thinking it may be the file structure content, if I just take the line that imports, pop that on a button and run, it is fine." Teaching grandmothers to suck eggs, I assume you have checked the detailed content of the failed records? And how are you deleting the Temp file?

In passing I think you are living in cloud cuckoo land about how easy it is to get into a mobile. I can go onto my local market and go to a stall that will unlock any phone in less than 5 minutes. I agree with the relative ease of getting into a PC but you've got to deliberately get into my...

I must I started the thread that about my dislikes, not based on any fear of big brother, but on their pervasiveness and the physical security of mobile thrones. It worries me that people entrust their whole life to their mobile phone but are happy to carry then in their back pockets and leave...

Exactly what I did although my initial driver was cost. However, since then the problems people seem to have with 365 makes me glad I did as well. All it seems to give is early access to problems.

Generally a mobile phone is a useful bit of kit but am I the only one who dislikes their all pervasiveness. I dislike the fact that people expect me to be available at all hours day and night! Easily solved as when I don't want to available I don't take if with me but then I get the accusatory...

A lot of useful ideas and advice but no one appears to have asked the obvious question. The data is sent in a tabular format so almost certainly originates in a tabular format. Is there any good reason why the originator can't be asked to forward it in a suitable format for import? CSV...

It's nice to common sense prevail. I am an experienced Access programmer and could probably knock together to do this quite easily but would probably continue to do it manually for this job. If it ain't broke don't fix it!

I did - remarkably politely all things considered.

The thing I've never understood about reparations mostly related to slavery is all the demands are made to us the buyers of the slaves, and not to Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and the rest of west Africa who Sold the slaves? They are as, if not more, guilty. Same with apologies - why would I...