Don
On 9/1/06, Don Codling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
September 1, 2006
Trying to put a tab into an AxAx field jumps you to the next field, in
my experience - a pain when I try to paste from a WP reference, or to
insert it by formatting it for that database and adding the file. I
occasionally forget and then have a mess to clean up before I can get it
right.
Don Codling
WP 12.0.0.602
DP 2.6x
Windows XP home, SP2
512 MBytes RAM
Brian Hancock wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> I always TAB delimit exports from DP to Access, Excel etc... You do
> not need to worry about quotes and commas at all... I can;t remember
> if it is possible to embed tabs in AxAx fields, but keep it in mindc
> if you do
>
> To create a tab delimited report, create a statard report, put in a
> header row in the firsxt page header if necessary, and between each
> field insert Alt-009 which will show up in DP as a tiny circle...
> Set the report print margins to 0 and the text lines to 0 so that you
> do not get any embedded FormFeed characters, which I can tell you will
> put Access into quite a tiz...
>
> In Access or Excel (which will probably default to it, specify a tab
> delimited report, and whehter there is a header row or not
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Bragonje" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:27 PM
> Subject: [Dataperf] Report DOS output
>
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am going to be importing into an Access database, using .csv formatted
>> data. Choices in the import process are between Windows(ANSI), DOS or
>> OS/2
>> (PC-8), or Mac.
>>
>> Going to a report in DP, option # 6, Disk File Mode WP/DOS offers
>> either WP
>> (4.2) format or DOS. My question is what does this DOS format match?
>>
>> And possibly related, using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy and paste between
>> Eudora and WP loses colons (:). Is this an issue of ANSI vs. DOS? Or
>> something else entirely.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
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