[Solved]Help with RTF Imports
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Hello,
I've been trying to work with some RTF imports from MS Word into Layout and I'm having a tough time. I go to "insert", select .rtf, and then select the file I'm trying to import. I get data into Layout, but it is always messed up (e.g., tables get jumbled) and sometimes not all of the text appears. Twice, when I tried to expand the box in Layout, all of the text contracted into a very small, unrecognizable blob, and then, boom, I had a bug splat. It happened twice during this session with the same symptoms.
So, does anybody know of a "trick" that allows me to reliably import text into layout (preferable in a tabular form). I had some reasonable luck copying and pasting from Excel on another project, but my understanding was that .rtf was the way to go. In my case, it doesn't work very well. I'm wondering if merged cells have anything to do with it? (Just a shot in the dark.)
I would have attached a copy of the .rtf file I'm trying to import, but the discussion group does not allow uploads with an .rtf extension (or .docx or .doc for that matter). As an aside, is there a list of allowable file extensions for uploading to this site?
Thanks!
Frank Borik
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zip the .rtf and then upload it
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Thanks, Rich. That worked great, and I now know how to better upload to the discussion group.
In the meantime, I was able to get the import to work (somewhat). What I did was double click the text to open it up, and Layout selected it all and realigned it. I had to mess around with some unwanted text wrapping, but after some effort, I think I have some work-arounds in place. At least I'm getting what I want into the layout document. Still, if I try to expand the selection too much, I get a bug splat. Third one today!
Thanks!
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OK, so I get numerous splats and 'Close Program' dialogs also.
But drag and drop the .rtf into LayOut and it will display correctly.
Don't resize it smaller though as this is when I get the splats.
This is certainly a strange one.
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So, I opened your .rtf in WordPad and resaved it again as .rtf
This time it doesn't do anything funky for me...
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Hi Rich,
The drag-and-drop works very well. Didn't think of that. I still need to double click on the import, but after I do that, it lines right up.
Not sure why the wordpad and re-save into .rtf cleared things up. I tried a similar thing thinking that there was something going on with Word 2013 (which is what I used to develop the .rtf). Similar problems, although you wouldn't think .rtf would care where it came from (I thought it was a standard format).
No matter. I'm up and running and I'm smarter about how to use the Layout insert function. Or at least smart enough to be dangerous!
Thanks for your help!
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I am having the same problem inserting rtf files - they look fine in Wordpad but are scrambled in Layout - I tried all the tricks mentioned above in this thread to no avail - I also tried your suggestion to "drag and drop" the rtf file into Layout but it does not work for me. When I double click on the table, it straightens up but then goes back to scrambled?? Any suggestions or work arounds? again, I tried all above and confused!! Thanks
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