Well, once they create the "liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, [and] touch sensitive body cover," why not make it change shape? The world is your oyster.
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§ ita § - Oct 04, 2005 11:23:29 am PDT #4753 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2005 11:29:09 am PDT #4754 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
^l should give you a line break
Nope. At least it doesn't when in an html file being opened in Excel.
Eddie - Oct 04, 2005 11:46:02 am PDT #4755 of 10003
Your tag here.
tommyrot, this will do what you're asking for:
<html>
<head>
<style>
<!--table
br
{mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
.xl24
{mso-style-parent:style0;white-space:normal;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<table>
<tr>
<td class=xl24>adsf<br><br>asdfasdf<br><br><br>asdf</td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
I got this from saving an Excel file as htm and then reducing Microsoft's craptacular html code to just these essentials to get it to respect the br tags.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2005 11:52:33 am PDT #4756 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Otherwise, is there way to search an entire Excel document for a certain character (tilde, say) and replace it with a carriage return? In Word you can replace something with ^p for a paragraph (carriage return) or ^l (manual line break) but Excel does not work the same way.
Sean K - Oct 04, 2005 12:16:32 pm PDT #4757 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I don't have a copy of excel at home, but I thought for sure there was a character combo that it would read as a line break or carriage return. Is there anything in the help file about line break or formatting characters?
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2005 12:31:29 pm PDT #4758 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is there anything in the help file about line break or formatting characters?
We couldn't find anything.
Sean K - Oct 04, 2005 12:32:29 pm PDT #4759 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
BASTARDS!
Eddie - Oct 04, 2005 12:38:02 pm PDT #4760 of 10003
Your tag here.
Ok, a few posts up I got the html code that will recognize br tags when importing into Excel.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2005 12:40:54 pm PDT #4761 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Thanks, Eddie - we'll give that a try tomorrow.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2005 12:54:58 pm PDT #4762 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Eddie, that doesn't work for what we want to do. If we were to save your example as an html file and open it in Excel, we would want all the text to be in a single cell (because it's all in one <td>). But when I try that, it ends up in four cells (two of which are two cells high, so something is going on).
Anyway, I gotta run.