> Parsing the HTML output would be much easier, why pass througth Excel.
Now there's food for thought. I have not given more than about 90 seconds worth of thought on the topic. > BTW, if you use a spreadsheet for KiCAD related work, why not use Open > Office. Apart from being the official package for documentation it > would also mean that you can share anything useful with the 50% of > KiCAD users who do not use windows, as well as the many windows users > who do not have Excel. > > > Saluti, Roger. I am cool with OpenOffice and use it quite a bit. The Calc portion is not nearly at the par of the MS products as the Write component, (IMHO, and that of others). If Calc would work, I would be all for it, though your HTML idea has merit. I just happened to take about 30 seconds to copy over a block of data from DK into Excel and Word and noticed that Excel parsed it correctly. If Calc works, I agree that would be a better solution. Actually, I did just come back to the forum because I thought of something regarding your new program. I usually avoid it, but I do sometimes copy components on my schematic. That sounds like an obvious thing to do, but when you copy a component in eeS it copies all the data in the component fields, but not the field names. I thought of this as only a minor nuisance, since the data fields are just dumped out with the BOM utility in the correct column. Your program is looking for pairs, however, and that would create a problem. If the powers that be would not mind adding a few lines of code to get the field names copied over as well as the data, it would avoid this issue in the future. BTW, I am now up to the latest KiCad. The windows installer is very professional and the undo/redo is very, very nice. I do still have a bit of trouble selecting text sometimes. I have to keep clicking at different places around the text before it finally acknowledges I right clicked on it. Maybe there is a trick I need to know? Much Regards, apluscw
