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In article <1990Aug4.154734.29819@sics.se> boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz) writes:
>
>A friend has written in a lot of tables in Word Perfect documents. She
>did not know what a spreadsheet program was at that time but now she
>does. Excel can read tabdelimited data and that is how it is written in,
>with a return after each row. So far so good.
>
>I tried to export one of the documents to TEXT. All her tabs were gone,
>not even a space between the data. She used decimal tabs when she typed it
>in. I selected all the text in the original document and replaced
>all the decimal tabs on the ruler with ordinary ones. THIS DID NOT CHANGE
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>(or am I just stupid to think that any tab in WP should translate to an 
>ordinary tab in a TEXT document or when I copy text from WP to a spreadsheet).
>
>Kent Boortz
>boortz@sics.se


Nope, you're right. WP is quite braindead in how it handles tabs other
than plain ones - it doesn't really insert ascii tabs in the file. I
hadn't noticed to problem with saving as text until you pointed it out
and it sure does just save it as one long string without any tabs. 

An alternative somewhat shorter than importing to PageMaker would be to
save as MSWord 3.0 (tabs get converted to real tabs), open again, and
then save as text. 

Hope this (and all sorts of other things) are improved in version 2.0.
Many of my support headaches are due to just this sort of WP silliness.
From what I've heard, 2.0 does promise to be a big improvement.


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