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Converting Secondary Merge To DIF Loses Dashe |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer is converting a WordPerfect secondary merge file from WP to DIF so he can pull the file into Paradox 3.0. If he has a blank field in his file, Paradox gives an error message about being unable to read codes and refuses to retrieve the document. He also says the conversion strips any dashes he may have in the fields. Solutions: The dashes are being stripped because the customer is using hard hyphens which are considered functions. If he wants dashes, he should press the Home key and release it, and then press the hyphen key. This will give him a dash character. As for the blank field, WordPerfect writes that out as a "", which is "No text." This is acceptable according to the DIF manual. Paradox should be able to handle this. Lotus can. WordPerfect used to write this out as "0" which Lotus and most others could not handle. Consequently, Development changed WordPerfect to the "". If this doesn't work for the customer, have him send a file in so that the testers can see exactly what he is doing. |
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