Export text from tabbed field

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--On Friday, January 03, 2003 13:27:26 +0100 Signe Marie Sanne 
<signe.sanne at roman.uib.no> wrote:

> MC 2.5B1 - buildnumber 3 - MacOS 9.2, Windows 2000
>
> Happy new year to all from Norway
>
> Is it possible to export a field with fixed tab stops to a text file with
> the tab stops being maintained in the file?

You can save the tabs but not the graphical representation of the stops, 
there is no such character as a tabstop. You could write a converter to 
html tables and save that if that's what you're looking for.

>I have used: put fld 1 into
> url tUrl. I have as well tried the stack "Print field" but the paper
> print shows the same negative result. --

Try printing the card with the field, it should show the tabstops.

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Regards, Andu Novac