| Author | Message | ||
     Jerry Adamson |
I purchased winhex to remove hidden tab characters in my Genealogical Database. How these character got their was by me coping and pasting from an MS-Works datatable into a text file in the Family Origins (FO)database program. On most reports that I print, these characters show as a wider vertical line. I can and have taken the data from the FO database into an GEDCOM file, which is pure text, then run winhex against this file, then reload the file back into a new Database program. When I do that, I lose some format defaults, that that several minutes to create. My question is: If I could determine the file, (FO database uses several), that contains this text information, could winhex access the file direct. That sure would preserve the integrity of the other formatting. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> If I could determine the file, (FO database uses > several), that contains this text information, could > winhex access the file direct. Yes, I think so. What I am not sure of is whether the resulting file will still be readable by the FO database. Possibly it is advisable not to simply cut the tab characters out of the file (and thus decrease the file size), but to replace tab characters with neutral characters (such as space characters). In any case, you should create backups of any file you are going to edit, of course. And to determine the correct file, maybe WinHex can prove useful as well. You can search for a text string in all open files at the same time, or use the Open Special command to only open files that contain a certain text string. |