copying tab delimited text to excel

[dan johnson]

I have a field with tab stops (string & tab & string & linefeed etc). On OS X, I 
can Command-C and Command-V to copy paste tab-delimited data into MS Excel v.X. 


On Windows, using Control-C, Excel 2000 doesn't see anything on the clipboard. 
Oh wait... I guess there is nothing on the clipboard at all. Is there some trick 
to getting copy-paste from a field to work on Windows, or do I have to implement 
it myself using rawKeyDown and clipboard etc? 


Alex Rice, Software Developer 
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. 
alrice at ARCplanning.com 
alrice at swcp.com 

Greetings,

Which Windows? Which Rev?

Win XPpro, Rev 1.1.1, Excel 2000 9.0

I created a field and populated it with a few lines made up of strings separated 
by tabs. While in Browse mode, I placed the cursor into the field. Then I 
pressed ctrl+a to select the entire field contents, then preseeded ctrl+c to 
copy the selection to the clipboard. Next I switched to Excel, selected a cell, 
and pressed ctrl+v to copy the clipboard. As expected, the contents were pasted 
as tab delimted data. That is, each tab resulted in the following  string to be 
placed into the next column. When the end of a line was reached, the next string 
started on the following line.

Does that help you sort out your problem?

Dan j.






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