Simplest import-excel example fails - beginner question

Help! I can't get import-excel to behave reliably even in the simplest case:
1 New table with the default one column
2 Add data to one row "hello"
3 Export to excel
4 New table with the default one column
5 Import from excel
6 Error message:
--IMPORT into table TABLE2 complete
--Inserted 2rows.
--Failed to insert 0rows.
I don't know if this detail helps:
Step 2's message was:
--INSERT INTO "TABLE1" (COLUMN1) VALUES ('hello')
--Commit Successful
Step 3's resulting excel file looks OK, though it has a null column to the right (as revealed by excel's control-end key). Nevertheless, deleting that null column didn't change the outcome.
Step 5's DML says:
--insert into TABLE2 (COLUMN1) VALUES(' ');
--insert into TABLE2 (COLUMN1) VALUES(' ');

Oops, I forgot to mention these details:
--Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0
--OracleBI Discoverer Version 10.1.2.2
--SQL Developer 1.1.2.25
--Excel 2003

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