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>Assuming that you can control the order in which the data fields are >written out by the secretary's program (and that may be a really big IF >depending on the software involved) then it should be possible to put it >in the same order (and include only the fields that Winnebago expects). When we did our conversion, we had to send our student records to Winnebago and ran into just this problem. I don't know what program the district office uses, but a tech person in San Francisco had to talk our secretary through the process of selecting and downloading the files and then we had to send the disks to him FIRST so that he could do some bead rattling over them before sending them on to Winnebago. The whole process cost us $500 (for the tech, not Winnebago). I sent Winnebago both disks, the unprocessed data and the disk the tech made changes to, and Winnebago said that yes, the changes were necessary. I just wanted to be sure we weren't getting taken in. Nevertheless, there's no way we can go through that process for each year's incoming students. I'm sure I will wind up typing them in myself. ****************************************************************************** Gayle Hodur ghodur@redshift.com