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crono

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Searching a Text-Table tool...
« on: July 28, 2009, 12:23 AM »
Hi,

I often have to insert tables into plaintext emails. Formating them in a texteditor is very time consuming. I found a nice tool on the Mac and wonder if there is something like this on windows. Any ideas?

thanks and bye
Andreas
« Last Edit: July 28, 2009, 12:26 AM by crono »

rjbull

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Re: Searching a Text-Table tool...
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2009, 12:44 PM »
Where're your tables coming from?  Is is a screen clip, or can you export your data as CSV?  Some editors - e.g. UltraEdit, and Boxer - can convert CSV into properly-spaced columns.  You could get more control over the appearance from Bruce Guthrie's CONVERT, which is a DOS command-line program for doing similar tasks, and more.

crono

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Re: Searching a Text-Table tool...
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2009, 01:54 PM »
the tables are comming from various sources - copied HTML tables, Excel spreadsheets, CSV Files, copied from PDF reports etc. - but most of the time they are  just "from scratch".
I will have a look at CONVERT - thanks :)

NigelH

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Re: Searching a Text-Table tool...
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 12:15 AM »
Crono, have you looked at CSVed?

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CSVed is an easy and powerful CSV file editor

Amongst many other thing, it can...

import;
export to HTML, Excel, Word, XML and more


crono

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Re: Searching a Text-Table tool...
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2009, 08:37 AM »
Hi,

I know the programm for some time, but only used it to check some csv Files - I will have a look...

thanks :-)

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