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Help?

As some of you know, I am embarassingly un-like But here's a conundrum which somebody might be able to help with...

My sister-in-law is having trouble transferring some data from MS to Apple. I wonder if anybody can help point her in the direction of software which would help her?

"Charts and graphs I can transfer fine from Excel to XPress. However the problem is getting Word tables into XPress. If I import a Word file that contains a table into XPress, the table is ignored, the data comes across but I loose all the table format"

I you understand what that's about If you can suggest a solution

Fb

Hi, Fb, I can't help. I have the same problem! You could always send it by paper plane

If no-one on h2g2 comes up with an answer try putting the question on the national question section of this website, they have some computer experts answering questions.

http://www.askyourneighbour.co.uk/home.php

websailor

If you have a loose table try putting a wad of paper under one of the legs

never used an Apple

I don't use both systems, but one thing occurs that may be worth a try.

You can copy a Word table and paste it into Excel. The table will sort itself into Rows and Columns. If you can then send it to Xpress as a spread sheet, perhaps the table can be re-copied from Xpress and pasted, as a table, into a Mac word processing program.

Good Luck,

Thank you for the comments - both useful and less useful

Pimms Long time no see

And Fords too How's your alterego these days?

Where you been? Or have I just missed you both in PR?


Fb

Hey, hey, hey!

Let me know if my suggestion was effective, on the chance I get asked again, someday.

Have you been checking the Front Page??

In the last week, my entries on 'Spotted Dick', and 'Adult Sleep Apnoea' have both reached EG status! (yay me)

I'm working on another one, with a sort of literary bent. It's proving an interesting project.

You know, I've still got a couple of entries simmering in Peer Review; 'Trigger Thumb', which seems not to be eliciting further comments, and 'Time: A Bi-Directional Dimension', which has received almost none.

Have I missed any of yours??

Hello Fords

Well, my Orkney World Heritage Site triptych is mouldering in PR They got quite a few comments and I have ed all three a couple of times

I've another ready to go in and one half-written about the Ordnance Survey. Considering another on the mid-Atlantic ridge, following my trip to Iceland

I'll go check out yours - don't recall seeing either of them, but I'm only dipping in and out of PR these days, after getting thoroughly ed off with the lack of quality a while ago


Fb

Hi FB

I did have a hiatus after Lamarck and Luke Howard, but I have been posting and reading your journal entries, and now have two further entries in PR on a sort of "The letter e in European packaging" theme. Not at first glance an enthralling topic

Glad to see you've read at least one of them Apologies for not getting to your Orkney stuff, I have skimmed past them with my wastrel magpie eye

Pimms (Fords, Sleep Apnoea similarly slipped through the net, but I did enjoy Spotted Dick, particularly the Diet version )

Thanks, Pimm.
And to think that the diet version was the quickest bit, insisted on by a reader! (was that you?)

I have expected the 'Time: ...' piece to be the big controversy, especially after the rigorous examination that 'Gravity Sled' got.

Oh well, such is hootoo life.

Fb, an expensive option would be to get Office for Mac - less expensive if you qualify for the student/teacher edition, which they're selling on the Amazon site.

Also, there is a Mac Users group at the Orchard A690653, who may be able to help.

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