Typical problems with Data in MS Excel 2003

Hi,

I am uploading more than 21,000 records of Data to Business Partner table from xls file.

Earlier I was doing it with ease, now the Data is being imported to the repository.

I am using the same map at the time of import. It also has remote key mapping.

After the import, # character and some unusal character is being displayed in the

Data Manager while the xls sheet does not have any # or any special character

in it.

Regards

Kaushik Banerjee