importing text incl. special formatted charcters

[laChrizz]

hi out there!

my problem: data from a *.rtf - file including specially fotmatted characters (e.g. sub- or superscripted) must be imported to a fileMaker file. if i convert the *.rtf to plain text, the formatting is (of course) gone. drag and drop won't work. converting to excel won't work (keeps the formatting, but FM kills it while importing the spredsheet). santa won't work. anybody can help?

im located in germany, so excuse my english, please.

greets, chris

[Chuck]

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Originally posted by laChrizz:

hi out there!

my problem: data from a *.rtf - file including specially fotmatted characters (e.g. sub- or superscripted) must be imported to a fileMaker file. if i convert the *.rtf to plain text, the formatting is (of course) gone. drag and drop won't work. converting to excel won't work (keeps the formatting, but FM kills it while importing the spredsheet). santa won't work. anybody can help?

im located in germany, so excuse my english, please.

greets, chris

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If you're on the Mac, I would try AppleScript. It would get pretty complicated, but it could be made to work. Basically, copying and pasting text can keep the formatting, but you need a way to automate the copying of the text in another program. On the Mac, this is AppleScript, on Windows, I'm sure there exists a technology to do the job, but I don't know what it would be. Perhaps QuicKeys.

Chuck