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Find and Replace?

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:26 pm
by Matt_A
Does anyone know the secret to using the Find and Replace dialog to replace commas in an imported text file with tabs? I could not find the method to put a tab in the dialog that worked. :/

Re: Find and Replace?

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:08 pm
by patrickm
I'm not sure how to put a tab directly in the box for PC, but for other programs, I normally copy/ paste a tab copied from somewhere else, sometimes a different program.

Re: Find and Replace?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:15 am
by Derek
Try Option-Tab

Re: Find and Replace?

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:17 pm
by MCharek
You could also export out to a text editor, do the find and replace, and import back into PowerCADD.

Re: Find and Replace?

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:38 pm
by Matt_A
Thanks all these are helpful. Derek, where did you learn about option+Tab, option+Enter? I could not find it in the manual.

Re: Find and Replace?

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:01 pm
by Derek
Matt,

Option-Tab works in many Mac applications so I thought it was worth a try. I don't recall where I learnt it but I used it a lot in TextEdit to massage data files from CSV to Tab delimited.