Submitted by jimspoon on 2019/06/26 12:09
 I want to paste into a grid some lines for a text file - and for most of the lines I want to create a separate item for each line.  That's not a problem- in the Paste Options dialog I choose Option #2 - "Paste all lines into selected cells, creating items if necessary."
 
But sometimes in the text, there are lines I want to "keep together" in one grid cell, separated by a line feed in IQ.
 
I was wondering how I can do that.  It may be easy and I am just not thinking of it!
 
I tried replacing the CR LFs in these selected lines with LFs, but when I tried pasting that, IQ pasted all the text in those lines together in one cell, with no line breaks where the LF characters were.

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Joining items is very quick using shortcut.
When I merge items I add a space in the dialogue. I wonder can one add a return there?
(on phone so can't check)

LeftEccoForIQ

2019/06/26 15:59

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Hey. The dialog window actually provides help on just this point. The format for 'return' is <cr>.

jimspoon

2019/06/26 19:49

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 I was hoping to be able to do something in the text file before I do the pasting - because if I am pasting a bunch of lines from a text file, I'm likely to forget that there were some lines I wanted to "keep together" in a single item, and then when I do a sort, the adjacent connection could be lost.  
 
Maybe if the text contained a <BR> between lines that are desired to be kept together?  or something like that.