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I am creating documents in Quark and the database I am working on is to store copy for all the items so that it is stored in one central location so that everyone can have access to the current copy.

So here's the scenario: I can use a Quark Xtension called Autoprice© to take "tagged" text and pull the content to an tab-sep txt file.

I can then pull this into the database to update.

The items needed can then be pulled back into a tab-sep text file so that i can then import back into Quark.

NOW - my problem is that when the file leaves Quark it has symbols set up in Quark to faciliate the Hard returns/ soft returns/ and Align here.

In Excel you can see these characters but they do not show up in the database, nor do they seem to be in the new file to go back into Quark. This means that the formatting that was already set up is removed.

I've checked with Meadows Information system ( makers of Autoprice) and the xtension is working but the data isn't there for it to use.

Any Ideas?

Here is a file that has sample of symbols.

Sorry, in my haste yesterday i forgot the file.

:

AutoPrice____ReportAN.txt

Edited January 17, 2008 by Guest

[cjaeger]

The characters will import fine into FileMaker, but not export the same way. Substitute(text;"¶";"<#13>") will work for example.

see the XPRESS tags documentation on how to substitute literal characters with the corrresponding Xtags.