Some fine-tuning may be needed after conversion...

Re: Medrite Conversion -- and Meditech -- TJ Newton
Posted by Jean Ichbiah ® , Wed, Aug 27, 2003, 08:37:26 Reply Top Forum

After conversion of the Medrite glossary, we found out that it had non-breaking spaces at the end of every entry. This was no problem with MS Word but Meditech did not seem to like these extra characters.

The solution was to delete all these characters (Alt 0160) using a global replace in UltraEdit or WordPad. There were also special characters Alt 0183, which appear to result from convention Medrite uses for bolding and which were also deleted.

This is quite general: The Importer will usually do 99% of the work but not 100%. After importing a list, you should always look at it in a text editor -- best is UltraEdit, otherwise WordPad -- to see if some fine tuning is needed.

Jean Ichbiah


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