Data file, is tab-delimited a problem?

[Josh]

Hi all,

I'm setting up an application that will make a long transcript (composed of dozens of individual human participants. I want to delimit the fields with tabs rather than commas for easy quick views in excel. Will this make reading difficult or is there a way to switch comma to tab in the search for item1, item2, etc. Many thanks for any help.

Josh

[BvG]

You can set the itemdelimiter to tab, this will easy your handling of the data.

In fields you can use the tabstops property, to format the entries as you want them to show. If you set the vGrid of a field to true, then text will be truncated, instead of moving the tab to the next tabstop.

[Josh]

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[Klaus]

I worked with a guy from Zurich a year ago. About the most productive and busiest person I ever met in my life.

Aha

[BvG]

I worked with a guy from Zurich a year ago. About the most productive and busiest person I ever met in my life.

clearly not me then...