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- Importing Text Files
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-
- Quickdex recognizes and converts Cardfile and Macintosh
- Quickdex files automatically, but has no automatic way of
- importing 'plain text' files. If you load a text file
- Quickdex will assume the entire text goes on a single card.
-
- A plain text file can be converted to Quickdex format very
- easily however. To convert text to Quickdex format you must
- have a consistent character or series of characters
- separating each record (or card) in the original text file.
- This separator can be a Carriage Return (CRLF), a symbol
- (eg.!) or a string (eg. xxx). To convert the text to
- Quickdex format the separator must be changed to a Quickdex
- separator character, 0x7F or 127 decimal. In most Windows
- applications this separator would look like a 'box'
- character.
-
- You can convert your separator character (or string) to the
- Quickdex separator character using a word processor or
- editor. For example in Windows Write, you would do the
- following.
-
- 1 - Load your text file in Write (File, Open)
- 2 - Choose Find, Replace from the menu
- 3 - in the 'Find What:' edit box, enter YOUR record
- separator .eg !. xxx or whatever string you are
- using. For Carriage Return use ^p (circumflex
- followed by lower-case P).
- 4 - Tab to the 'Replace With:' edit box
- 5 - in the 'Replace With:' edit box do the following:
- - hold down the 'Alt' key.
- - on the numeric keypad type 0127
- - release the 'Alt' key
- 6 - Click on the 'Replace All' button
- 7 - Choose File, Save As...
- 8 - Save the file as a TEXT ONLY file.
-
- The file is now in Quickdex format.
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