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10.2.3 Exporting Data in Text Format

   

Cells in a NExS spreadsheet can be exported in ``plain ASCII'' text format. When exporting text, NExS attempts to make the exported text file look as much like it appears in the NExS data area as possible. This is accomplished by aligning the data in columns which are justified like they are in the data area. If an exported row contains one or more cells containing multi-line text, NExS writes as many lines as necessary in the exported text file to correctly display the contents of the row.

In practice, best results with text export are obtained when the cells in the spreadsheet are formatted to use a fixed-width (i.e., Courier) font. This is because NExS lines up the columns in the exported text file by using a fixed number of characters for each cell, based on the width of the column that the cell is contained in.

In general, a NExS spreadsheet that is exported as text and subsequently imported will lose some of its formatting information, and will possibly lose its original column boundaries as well. The reason for this is that a spreadsheet exported as text does not contain explicit delimiters to represent the boundaries between columns.


Note: You can also paste NExS spreadsheet cells into other X Window programs as text by selecting the cells to be pasted and clicking the middle mouse button in a window of another application which accepts text input. For more information, refer to Chapter 5, Manipulating the Spreadsheet.


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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999