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From: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word Perfect table exporting problems
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.110813.3007@tsa.co.uk>
Date: 7 Aug 90 11:08:13 GMT
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Reply-To: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
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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...

Yes.  Trying to get WordPerfect (1.0.3) for the Mac to do columns and
tables feels to me like trying to reverse a trailer round a corner: its
far more difficult and error-prone than it has any right to be.  I've had
the same problem in the past, and didn't arrive at a solution.  However, a
little playing around suggests that if you replace all ``start align''
codes with tabs BEFORE saving the file as text, the result is pretty much
what you need.  Don't mess with the ruler: it's not necessary.

When's 2.0 liable to hit the streets, anybody?
-- 
Dominic Dunlop