Copy text in processing to Word or Excel

Bruce Easton bruce at stn.com
Mon Dec 8 16:26:06 PST 2014


On 12/8/14, 6:44 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
> On 12/8/14, 5:49 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
>>> On 12/8/2014 3:19 PM, Richard Hane wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have some suggestions for my problem?
>>>>
>>>> We are updating our MRP software to the new ERP version. I have
>>>> about 8 processes that import data from the MRP (in SQL Server) to
>>>> filePro via an ODBC link.
>>>>
>>>> I need to list in Excel the existing Table name and Field name. This
>>>> information is located in my definition in each of the processing
>>>> table.
>>>>
>>>> I tried the mark, copy and paste but that doesn't seem to work well
>>>> for me. Anyone have a better solution?
>>>  From reading this, I have no idea what the problem or question is.
>> I can't be sure, but I think he's trying to import his maps into Excel
>> sheets.
>>
>> In that case, copy the map, delete the first line, transform colons 
>> to tabs,
>> and then import as TSV.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
> If that's the goal and it's a large map, and they don't keep a large 
> generic import/export assignment table handy, then it might be quicker 
> to make use of the fieldname function within a loop.
>
> Bruce
>
> Oh gosh - sorry - I misread part of that.  Yes, let Excel do the work 
> importing the transformed map file.  Should be easy peasy as they say.
>




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