Pasting into worksheet from Autocad for Mac

[davisb353]

Greetings. I have a new installation of Office 2011 on my mac mini as well as a new version of Autocad 2011 for mac, and I am having problems pasting into a worksheet. I have a multiline list in Autocad such as:

Bolt
Nut
Washer

...and so on, and I need to paste columns like this into a worksheet in order to create a bill of materials. Excel simply gives me the "B" from the first word and thats it. I tried paste special and it gives me a choice of unicode text, and nothing else, and this option gives me the lonely "B" as well. It allows me to paste the whole list into one cell, but this is not a viable option. Any advice would be awesome.

[maxim_k]

Hi,

If you are using AutoCAD for Mac 2011, there is a defect in it:

When you use clipboard to copy (cut) text - AutoCAD copies it with additional invisible chars, these chars prevents other applications from correctly pasting into it text strings.

Here is screen-shot of TextWrangler application with text pasted from AutoCAD and "show invisibles" turned on:

As far as I know - there is no workaround for this issue, unfortunately.

Maxim

[davisb353]

Hi

Thanks for the info, I did notice there was something extra between the letters but I didn't know what. Hopefully they will fix it sometime soon as it causes some pain here at my office. I tried opening the worksheet in openoffice and it seemed to work although it skipped a row between every entry. So I guess I will use that until they fix it.

Thanks.

[maxim_k]

BTW, in AutoCAD for Mac 2012 this issue has been fixed.

Maxim

[davisb353]

Thanks so much for the help. I will push for an upgrade!