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Tables again

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From: Mike Mepham
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:49
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For some months I've been using a VB script that converts lines of indented text into table cells --- my solution to vertical tabulation, which works very well and reliably. However, it is incredibly slow, due to the number of processes that each line of text has to go through as it makes up a row of table. It strikes me that if the script did not have to display each stage of the process, updating the document for each process and was somehow buffered before updating the document when completed it would be very much faster. eg, the object could be a temporary file and the document could be relinked to it when the process was completed. This would also get around the problem of not being able to do anything with my computer while the script is working; even Doevents doesn't help.

I just cannot see how to divert output from the ID document to a file. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Mike
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