On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Ryan Graybeal wrote:
I am not sure how it gets broken up. And does have hard returns in it.
Well then, that's an issue with Excel and how it exports to the tab-
delimited format, possibly something peculiar about your document.
I'm not sure what can be done about that from FusionPro's point of
view, even if I could reproduce the problem. The end-of-line
signifies the end of a record; that's a fundamental aspect of
delimited files.
Excel may be the World's Most Popular Database (TM), but it's
notoriously imperfect for that use, especially if you're trying to use
it to format the data, a task which is incompatible with the concept
of a tab-delimited file (thus Excel's warning that formatting will be
lost when exporting to that format). You might try creating a VBA
macro in Excel to work around the issue and export a valid tab-
delimited file, without extra newlines. Or try asking around in an
Excel-related forum.
If you can't get a valid tab-delimited file out of Excel, the one
thing you could try in FusionPro is using ODBC input with the Excel
driver to read the Excel document directly, but I'm not sure how the
driver would handle the formatting in Excel. And ODBC is only
supported on Windows currently. (We are considering ODBC support for
Mac as well, although it's not clear how much demand there is for that.)
In general, FusionPro does not accept any kind of "rich" or formatted
text as input. You can use either plain text with delimiters or text
marked up with FusionPro tags (or ODBC on Windows) for your main input
file. If you want to set formatting in a GUI, WYSIWYG type of
environment, you can create a Formatted Text Resource and set whatever
styles you like in the Text Editor dialog.
Dan
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