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Karl - 17 Jan 2005 21:48 GMT

What do you do when you want to save a document as a comma delimited text
file, but your document has commas in the data fields (i.e. a company named
Johnson, Smith, and Jones, C.P.A.)? I tryed using comma delimited text for
making various lists, labels, etc and found that it takes the above name and
makes each name and makes it into a seperate entry. Any help appreciated.

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Graham Mayor - 18 Jan 2005 11:12 GMT

Change the field delimiter from a comma to something else not used in the
data - e.g. |

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> What do you do when you want to save a document as a comma delimited
> text file, but your document has commas in the data fields (i.e. a
> company named Johnson, Smith, and Jones, C.P.A.)? I tryed using comma
> delimited text for making various lists, labels, etc and found that
> it takes the above name and makes each name and makes it into a
> seperate entry. Any help appreciated.

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Karl - 18 Jan 2005 15:14 GMT

Thanks, think that will work!

> Change the field delimiter from a comma to something else not used in the
> data - e.g. |
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> > it takes the above name and makes each name and makes it into a
> > seperate entry. Any help appreciated.

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