Excel instead af RTF-file?

[Arne Christiansen]

Hello
I consider using Transcript on danish census.
Is there any way I can get Microsoft Excel in the lower part of the screen instead of the document automatically generating RTF-files.

Arne Christiansen
Denmark

[Wormnest]

At the moment it's not possible to use an excel file. I am planning to try to add that in version 3 of Transcript.
However I haven't been able to work on Transcript lately so I don't know when that will come out, not very soon anyway.

[maggy]

Excel is able to import comma delimited text files. I'm so new to Transcript that I don't know if it allows to save as plain text. If not, than you'll need to open the RTF in Word or Wordpad and save as .TXT .
Lets say your document has columns first name, last name, year of birth, town of birth
than your text file should either look like:
John,Smith,1570,London;Marie,Jones,,London;Willam,,1583,;

or like
John,Smith,1570,London
Marie,Jones,,London
Willam,,1583,

So for each row the total numbers of comma's is one less than the number of columns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

[Wormnest]

Yes Transcript can save as plain text. Using commas it is inded possible to then import it in excel but this is ofcourse not the most convenient way to do it.
However I have not even started working on version 3 so I have no idea when it will be ready if ever.