1280 Form: Formatted memoVERSIONS: Paradox 7 and later
SUBJECT: Copying into formatted memofields
BY: BERTIL ISBERG
Date: April 2002
There have been reports on problem pasting text from eg a MS Word document into a Paradox formatted memo. Some characters are lost when pasted, e g the m-dash (Alt-0151),and single open and close quotation marks.
I have found the best way to prevent characters from disappearing is to paste the text into an undefined field in a form, and copy the content of the field into the formatted memo field.
The m-dash, -, will be transformed to a normal dash, -, and the smart single quotes will be conventional quotes, but characters are not lost completely.