Newbies dcrOz Posted July 6, 2008 Newbies Share Posted July 6, 2008 I wish to migrate a mineralogical database that I created using v5.5 for use with v9 Advanced, but a straight import loses all the special formatting for the chemical formulae. Is there a way to import the data while preserving the formatting so that I don't have to reformat 3000 formulae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comment Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I am not sure what you mean by "straight import". You cannot import directly from a .fp5 file. But if you let Filemaker v.9 convert the .fp5 file, the text styling will be preserved - even if you then import the data to another file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies dcrOz Posted July 6, 2008 Author Newbies Share Posted July 6, 2008 Just opened the fp5 file and let v9 convert it - and the superscript and subscript formatting is gone from the formulae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comment Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Can you post a sample .fp5 file? A copy of your file with just the relevant field and one or two records with example data should be sufficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies dcrOz Posted July 6, 2008 Author Newbies Share Posted July 6, 2008 (edited) here it is Edited July 6, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodSierra Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Converts fine retaining formating for me FM9 advanced on OSX Tiger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies dcrOz Posted July 6, 2008 Author Newbies Share Posted July 6, 2008 hmmm - must be something with the Windows versions not retaining super/sub formatting. oh well - looks like I'll have to edit each formula individually anyhow - thanks for the attempt : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodSierra Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 check your PM box, I can send you the converted file, perhaps it will work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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