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Bingo. That little regular expressions detail wasn't in the help notes. Thank-you.

Using V4.7.0. I have a tab delineated text file. The programmer messed up a little, and some fields are separated by a fence (|) instead of a tab. Under the replace context help, note #3, says to use \t . This does not work. All it did was replace fences with \t's. Known problems did not have a ...

Thank-you!

And I thought programmers used HTML editors

Sorry, that leaves 9 blank spaces at the end of the line. Not professional enough for me. Thanks for the suggestion, however.

It seems the only way to get to textpad support is via the bug report?

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Yes, it is a necessary function. If the first response on a survey was left blank, then I leave that position blank in the data file. I have a set of surveys coming next week, but they made a mistake and there are two versions of the survey. One version will have entries for columns 1-88, but the ...

When using Textpad for data entry (not in block select mode), I enter a string of numbers for each survey. One survey had no response for the first field, so I entered a space, then finished the line. When I hit hard return, I was not returned to column 1, but rather to column 2. Obviously, I want ...

[addendum...first time poster thought he was logged on when posting, see no way to edit a guest post] Well, I figured out it is not the number of spaces from the cursor but the number of spaces from the left margin (this was not stated in the help file). But, I would like an explanation about the ...