[APBeta] Copy bug
David Crum
crum.david at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 05:01:07 PDT 2009
Hello Robin, I am using Vista 64x (knew I should have included that info).
Sounds like you did everything I did (except for Plan Creation Wizard,
I just used the search catalog function).
I will continue to do more testing, hope this isn't just a problem on my end :(
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:21 AM, RPEHLM<robin at lauryssen-mitchell.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Well I have just given this a quick go using WinXPro/SP3, Excel 2002 and
> PSPad (my favoured text editor). Seems to be working just fine for me. I
> used the Plan Creation Wizard and searched for all objects in Aries that are
> visible from my site. Total of 85 objects found. Exported 9 fields to an
> Excel file along with a header line. Loaded the exported file into Excel,
> hit ctrl-a and ctrl-c. Switched focus to PSPad, opened a new document and
> hit ctrl-v. Everthing got pasted as expected. Anything else I should try
> to attempt to replicate your problem?
>
> Have you tried varying your export routine? Can you send me the plan and/or
> Excel file to try here?
>
> Regards
> Robin
>
> RPEHLM wrote:
>>
>> Is this with WindowsXP? Which version of Excel? I'll will try to
>> replicate this on my WindowsXP systems anyway.
>>
>> Regards
>> Robin
>>
>> David Crum wrote:
>>>
>>> Paul, this is a new one.
>>>
>>> I use the export to Excel function a lot, and so far, there has been
>>> zero problems with it, until this release.
>>>
>>> I used Aeries as the test. I selected search NGC catalog, all
>>> objects, Aeries as the constellation and hit search. There were 80
>>> objects.
>>>
>>> Once they were all loaded, I selected Export, and did the usual export
>>> routine.
>>>
>>> Once exported into an excel spreadsheet, I selected all of the items
>>> (all 80 lines), and then copied them into a text document. That is
>>> where the problem began, only the FIRST line of information got
>>> copied. To make sure it was AP causing this problem, I made up a new
>>> spreadsheet, put 5 random items into the cells, selected them and then
>>> pasted them into a text document without any problems.
>>>
>>> This only happens when I export items into the spreadhseet and then
>>> copy/paste them.
>>>
>>> I have been able to reproduce this every time. I can send screenshots
>>> if needed.
>>>
>>> Dave
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