Andrew:

Yes, you understand me well.
And, I understand your point as well.

For AP, I only want to use import for the things that are repeated every month, such as payroll for certain employees, lease, certain goventment remittances. all other non-recurring items will go through the normal input procedure.

and for OE, it is a similar situation. we are a non-for-profit association.we do four or five conferences each year. when we invoice members for the conference fee, every invoice have the same info, differences are customer id, amounts etc. and all these info are in csv format already(generated by event registration database). so importing from csv will save lots of time. Of course, we will manually enter invoices that are non-recurring.

I have located the APINVIM.CSV, but can not find OEORDIM.CSV.
Is there a way that you can send one to me?

Many thanks.