First off, I am using a Mac with Parallels to run DataCAD. Yes there are quirks, but I am slowly working through them. The latest issue I am experiencing is when I import my specifications (text) into the drawing. I am using Word 2011 for Mac. When I was running Word on a PC, I would select the entire document > copy > go into DataCAD > Paste Special > Text - and it would import it with everything aligning to the left. All indentations were lost, but it was a simple thing to correct and something I just accepted.
Now when I import, I am having issues with spacing, and a lot of "symbols" are not converting. Things like dashes, quotation marks, etc. are becoming ?'s. See screenshot
I have tried saving the Word document as ".doc", ".rtf", ".txt". I have also tried uploading the document to Apple's Pages app, and importing. Same situation. Really not sure what to do, other than install a copy of Office within Parallels and see if that works. But that seems redundant to have 2 copies of Word.
Has anyone else run into this before, or is there an easier way to import a word document of text? While I don't want to re-write all my specs, if there is a format that would make it work like before, I will painstakingly go through it all.
Now when I import, I am having issues with spacing, and a lot of "symbols" are not converting. Things like dashes, quotation marks, etc. are becoming ?'s. See screenshot
I have tried saving the Word document as ".doc", ".rtf", ".txt". I have also tried uploading the document to Apple's Pages app, and importing. Same situation. Really not sure what to do, other than install a copy of Office within Parallels and see if that works. But that seems redundant to have 2 copies of Word.
Has anyone else run into this before, or is there an easier way to import a word document of text? While I don't want to re-write all my specs, if there is a format that would make it work like before, I will painstakingly go through it all.
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