Best Practice for Populating Tables in Arbortext Editor 5.2

[HarryKahnAssoci]

Using only Editor - what is the best method of populating a table with data from a text file? Right now - the only way I've figured out is to cut and paste individual text strings into their appropriate cell. Is there any functionality for converting text to a table? Thanks in advance for your help.

[ptc-1681562]

The only way I've been able to paste text into a table is to view the text in my browser as html, then copy everything EXCEPT THE HEADER and paste it into Arbortext and the table is created correctly.

[HarryKahnAssoci]

We insert text from text files in MS Word. We do not utilize browsers and HTML documents. Any other suggestions?

[mfiero]

If you copy your table from Word into Excel, copy that, then use the "Paste Excel" menu item (under the Edit menu), it produces a very good XML table. Takes a couple of steps, but is still much easier than cell-by-cell copying and pasting! Hope that helps! Meghan Fiero Editorial Content Manager Scholastic

[lfraley]

Did the text file come from somewhere else? If you've created the text file by extracting data from a database, you can skip the text file and use "Data Merge" to populate the table directly from the database.

To learn more about Data Merge, see the presentation Clay Helberg did for the Arbortext PTC/User group this past spring:

http://www.sfbayptcuser.org/blog/2010/04/video-aprmtg/