copying tab delimited text to excel

[Alex Rice]

On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 01:48  AM, miscdas at boxfrog.com wrote:
> Alex,
> It doesn't work quite like that for me in Win XPpro. I also checked it 
> in MC 2.4.3 and Rev 1.1.1.  The only behavior that I might call a bug 
> is due to the MC engine not allowing ctrl+a in a field. Otherwise, I 
> get what is expected. Maybe either OS X or Rev 2.0.1 are the source of 
> the ctrl+c problem that you see. It does seem strange that I see 
> ctrl+a not working in the stand alone, but you see ctrl+c behaving 
> oddly.

That is strange. Ctrl+a doesn't work for me either in the standalone. I 
have lock text set to true do you?

> I created a stand alone from the above stack (both in Rev and MC). In 
> the stand alone, ctrl+a doesn't do anything. In order to select some 
> text in the field, I had to use the mouse. Once the selection is made, 
> ctrl+c then ctrl+v in Excel worked exactly as expected.
>
Do you have an Edit menu, or any keybindings for Ctrl-c, or is it 100% 
the engine handling this?


Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com