https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspxIf you're not sure where to ask your question, ask it here. If necessary, our moderators will make sure it gets classified in the correct board.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/91061.aspxWed, 03 Jul 2013 02:10:59 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:91061Hilary Stoupa0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/91061.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=91061<p>&nbsp;To me, this depends on how often you need to update - if often, go with a list - if infrequent, go with XML (unless you create a form for the XML and pull the data from a ShP library or something - you just don&#39;t want to have to republish the template every time something changes...)</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/90972.aspxWed, 26 Jun 2013 22:58:36 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:90972Sjackson0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/90972.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=90972<p>&nbsp;I have an excel file that is made up from multiple database and dumped into 1 excel file.<strong>&nbsp;I can&#39;t get&nbsp;read access to the databases</strong>.&nbsp; &nbsp;The file has 150 columns and about 300 rows (average).&nbsp; My question is should I break it into multiple list <em>(about 12 lists) </em>or xml files and add them to an InfoPath form?&nbsp; Any thoughts?</p>