Exporting formatted fields

[mary_w_farmer]

I'd like to export the correct formatting of fields that contain italicized words. It's comparable to exporting citations for a bibliography. I'm using FMPro 4.1. The quotation marks will export but nothing else.

Ideas?

[Vaughan]

Exported data is just plain ASCII text, not formatting is carried across. That's the way it is.

To bring across formatting you'll have to use somthing other than export: perhaps copy and past will work for you. If there are lots of fields and records it is going to be a big job.

I was going to suggest writing a script, but FMP scripts only work within FMP. Unless you are on a Macintosh and create a AppleScript... or whatever is comparable for Windows.

[mary_w_farmer]

That's what I suspected. I'm gearing up to learn enough AppleScript to do this job. Thanks for the confirmation.