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From: austin@spies.sf-bay.org (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Importing Text ?????
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.065041.29853@spies.sf-bay.org>
Date: 17 Jan 91 06:50:41 GMT
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In article <4bZ8Mei00WBN821VtW@andrew.cmu.edu> fr0c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank A. Reynolds) writes:
>Maybe someone can figure this one out. 
>
>I'm importing text from a Microsoft Word document saved as text. It has
>about 3000 names, and data on the names, with tabs between each item.  I
>have only done importing of text to HyperCard as a test before, so I
>stopped at about 1200 names to see if all the information was be
>transfered into the right fields (there are 12 fields), everything was
>fine.  So I opened the Word document and remove the names that had been
>transfered then tried to import the rest.  HyperCard begins to import
>the very 1st name again.
>
>I have tried,
>
>1.  re-saving the Word document, 
>2.  re-named it,
>3.  made a copy of the stack removed all the name already imported, 
>
>and it still starts importing the 1st name again.

That's because a document opened in Word is STILL OPEN EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE
CLOSED IT and remains open until you quit!  This is because (according to
Microsoft tech support) Word keeps track of clipboard selections as
pointers to within a document.

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