Hi Tom, Is this not just a case of right clicking top left hand shortcut icon in DP window, - edit - mark - cursor over text required to block it, - enter or right click to save to clipboard and then same again as above but "paste" instead of edit to paste contents of clipboard where you want to put it. Limitation with open ended text fields is you can only copy what you can see. - Or have I completely missed what you are trying to do
Just spent last 6mths totally revamping my Databases (they are twice as complex as they were at the conference) and like you I'm still in awe of what can be achieved with this "little old dos program" Once again a BIG Thanks to Lew from me as well. Haven't heard from Lew lately on this forum - I do hope all is well. Regards Colin Roberts ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:05 Subject: [Dataperf] Capture and Paste Rectangle of Text Like WP51 > Hi, > > Probably like many of you, I'm using a DP app I built in the 1992-95 era > -- one that holds all of our case information, calendaring, and contact > information for a 5 attorney law office. It hasn't been modified in 8 > or 9 years, and I'm pretty sure I'll still be using it when I retire in > 3-5 years. I marvel at its capability and durability almost every day. > For the thousandth time -- THANK YOU LOU! > > I ran into a problem today that I wonder if anyone has a quick answer > to. I need the old WP51 rectangle capture and paste ability, but in a > windows text system -- preferably Word, WordPad or NotePad or even WP9, > 10, 11. > > I'm trying to explain to non-wp51 law users how they can populate a csv > data file by doing what I do effortlessly with WP51, which is block and > move rectangle. > > In this case, every line begins almost the same way except for the > numbering as shown below. The task is to move the second data set so it > ends up at the end of each row of the first column.set. With wp51, I > just use alt-f4 to mark and cont-f4 to grab rectangle and then drop it > at end of first line. > > My question is can a commonly availble windows program do the same? > > "",fnotes3.fno|0001,"","","","","","","","","","","","", > "",fnotes3.fno|0002,"","","","","","","","","","","","", > "",fnotes3.fno|0003,"","","","","","","","","","","","", > "",fnotes3.fno|0004,"","","","","","","","","","","","", > "",fnotes3.fno|0005,"","","","","","","","","","","","", > > > Second column > > Academy,Fresno,Clovis, > Acampo,San Joaquin,Lodi, > Acton,Los Angeles,Antelope, > Adelaide,San Luis Obispo,Paso Robles Branch > Adelanto,San Bernardino,San Bernardino Co., > > Thanks, > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
