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Trina - 13 Aug 2003 15:36 GMT

I need to export a very large tab delimited document and
retain formating (namely one column in bold). Ultimately
the text in column format has to be converted to body copy
style.
I generally deal in graphics not data. Can this be done?

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Graham Mayor - 13 Aug 2003 17:23 GMT

What are you exporting it from and to?

I take it that you have a comma delimted text file with some of the items
manually formatted, but you also mention columns, so are you exporting from
a table *to* a comma delimited file - and if you are, which column?

Ultimately the bold formatting will not be the major issue.

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> I need to export a very large tab delimited document and
> retain formating (namely one column in bold). Ultimately
> the text in column format has to be converted to body copy
> style.
> I generally deal in graphics not data. Can this be done?

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Trina - 13 Aug 2003 18:33 GMT

Thanks for your response.

The original document came to me in Notepad as a text doc,
semi-colon delimited. I I've taken it into both Word and
Excel, converted to table format to boldface the entire
first field (35,000 names). Ultimately I have to deliver it
from Quark 5.0 as a multi-page doc with the text in body
copy style.

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Graham Mayor - 14 Aug 2003 08:18 GMT

I have not worked with Quark so I don't know what it needs to translate the
Word table. If it uses tags then you can do a *wildcard* replace on the
*delimited file* to add the tags

The following will add a tag to the first field (except for the first
record).
^13(*);
replace with
^pTAG\1TAG;

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