I've been asked to provide an export from a legacy 4D system delivered as an 
.xlsx file.

The challenge I'm facing is that this table contains a number of text fields 
and the customer requires the imported column cells to retain the returns or 
line feeds in the original text fields. If I do a straight tab-delimited export 
with carriage returns as the end of line marker, the imported result does not 
preserve the original row because any returns encountered in the text fields 
are interpreted as end of row.

My other challenge is that I need to do this with out-of-box end user 
capabilities from a client (v15.4 remote) against a compiled server. I can't 
install plugins, create new methods, etc.
It has been many years since I've had to do this type of thing in 4D.

Can I replace the carriage returns in the text fields with a special marker 
during export? I could replace the Excel cells containing the any carriage 
return markers with actual returns after import.

Thanks,

Brad Perkins
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