Microsoft KB Archive/50665

Works 2.00 README: Comma- and Tab-Delimited Text Files

PSS ID Number: Q50665 Article last modified on 03-24-1997

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Summary:

The following contains partial contents of the README.WPS file located on the 5.25&quot; Setup disk for Works Version 2.00:

More Information:

Tab-Delimited and Comma-Delimited Text Files
You can use the File Save As command to save Spreadsheet or Database files as either comma- or tab-delimited text files.

Comma-delimited text files look like the following (where  is a paragraph mark):

“text”,“02139”,123  “text”,“02139”,123  For comma-delimited text files, the following applies:


 * 1) Database fields and spreadsheet cells are separated by commas.
 * 2) Text is inside double quotation marks; numbers are not.
 * 3) There is a paragraph mark at the end of every database record or spreadsheet row.
 * 4) Displayed number formats (for example, “currency”) are not saved.

Tab-delimited text files look like the following (where  is a paragraph mark,  a tab mark):

text02139123$1,230.00  text02139123$1,230.00  For tab-delimited text files, the following applies:


 * 1) Database fields and spreadsheet cells are separated by tabs.
 * 2) There is a paragraph mark at the end of every database record or spreadsheet row.
 * 3) Numbers that are text are not differentiated from other numbers.
 * 4) Displayed number formats are saved.

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