I agree that the Office products are so widely used that this tab-loss feature should be fixed. So far I have only designed such tools for my self and usually use AppleScript (and older versions of Rev) so I am glad you are exploring the issue.
Thanks Jim Ault Las Vegas On 3/29/08 4:35 PM, "Bryan McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To clarify, yes, the problem in copying any range of rows and columns > from Excel and then trying to paste them into a field is that tabs are > not preserved. I am trying to paste from Excel, to Rev. It works fine > pasting from Rev to Excel. This is on Windows. I was keeping my fingers > crossed this would be rectified in 2.9. > > To clarify by example, what you end up with in pasting from Excel to Rev > is no separation character of any kind, so you simply get a run of text > concatenated together. > > --------- Example > > For example a spreadsheet with the following (tabs to show columns) > > Hot Blue Red Almond > > > ...results in this when pasted into a Rev field: > > hotblueredalmond > > > If one pastes into NotedPad first and then into Rev, the proper > formatting returns. > > ----------- > > Checking the clipboard to do something simple like replace tab with > (pick a delimiter) does not work. I thought of that as well Jim, but no > go, the tabs just do not appear to be there. > > Perhaps it is a flaw with the internal clipboard of Excel. However > Notepad seems to be able to handle it fine as does pretty much any other > text editor on Windows. > > I'm not sure this would be a bug per se as long as this is not really > Rev's problem. It is however really annoying, perhaps it becomes a > feature request? > > I would think this would potentially impact any developer trying to come > up with a solution that interfaces with Office products. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
