https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Text-output-problem-in-version-12/m-p/162423#M18448 It seems that there is something different in both Archicad and Excel.<BR /> <BR /> Version 12 files won't open properly in Excel 2003 or 2007 but other earlier Archicad version files open fine which suggests something has happened in 12.<BR /> But a version 12 file will open in Excel 2002 which suggests something has changed in Excel as well.<BR /> <BR /> It is something to do with the encoding.<BR /> There is nothing in Archicad that I can find to change so i will start to look at Excel to see if there is some setting that can be changed there.<BR /> <BR /> Barry. Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:22:55 GMT Barry Kelly 2009-01-29T06:22:55Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Text-output-problem-in-version-12/m-p/162422#M18447 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Has anyone noticed any problems with the text output from version 12?<BR /> <BR /> I have my doors and windows output some info to a text file in a tab delimited format that I then open in Microsoft Excel.<BR /> Version 12 still creates the files OK and can even read the info back into Archicad fine.<BR /> But when I double click the file to open it in Excel it loses all of the tab formatting and is just a jumbled mess (using Excel 2003 or 2007).<BR /> The only way I can open it successfully is to open the file from within Excel itself and then a text import dialogue appears asking how the file is delimited (tabs) and the file origin which has something to do with it's encoding.<BR /> The same happens if I try to open the file in Word - it prompts for the correct text encoding (which seems to be - Unicode (UTF-8) ).<BR /> <BR /> Two sample files are attatched in the zip file if anyone wants to try to open them.<BR /> <BR /> I can't find any settings that will change how the text files are saved and there is nothing wrong with the GDL scripting that I can see either.<BR /> <BR /> I just want to find out if others are having a problem before I report it to Graphisoft.<BR /> <BR /> Barry.</T></DIV> Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:05:55 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Text-output-problem-in-version-12/m-p/162422#M18447 Barry Kelly 2009-01-28T06:05:55Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Text-output-problem-in-version-12/m-p/162423#M18448 It seems that there is something different in both Archicad and Excel.<BR /> <BR /> Version 12 files won't open properly in Excel 2003 or 2007 but other earlier Archicad version files open fine which suggests something has happened in 12.<BR /> But a version 12 file will open in Excel 2002 which suggests something has changed in Excel as well.<BR /> <BR /> It is something to do with the encoding.<BR /> There is nothing in Archicad that I can find to change so i will start to look at Excel to see if there is some setting that can be changed there.<BR /> <BR /> Barry. Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:22:55 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Text-output-problem-in-version-12/m-p/162423#M18448 Barry Kelly 2009-01-29T06:22:55Z