Re: Tabs in MS-Word (was 'What's in a tab?'

[rrr@xxxxxxxx (Rene von Rentzell)]

Carl:
>Perhaps your client could describe WinWord's distaste for these
>characters in more detail. What behavior occurs? Does it apply to

They seem to cause his Word to do strange things... difficult to
get more detailed information out of him, since he is not very
computer literate.

>all tabs, or just some? Is the problem limited to tabs, or does it
>occur elsewhere as well?
All, and only tabs

>You might do well to verify that your "trusty old tab code" is
>indeed a 1-byte Ascii-9

It is

>Also, if you're sending your documents to your client over the Net,
>the tabs may not be preserved since they're not in the 7-bit range

No, I was uploading them to the local Compuserve imitation (Niftyserve)
as binary upload. No disappearing codes there, unless he did something
funny during download, in which case he would have had other troubles
than just with tabs. Also, I've heard the tab story from others too.
Could be something with the Japanese mutation of "Word" though. Oh well,
thanks anyway.


-- Rene 
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