The lopping off of leading zeros is a feature of Excel. It has nothing
to do with Protel IMHO. So unless Protel can export in an Excel format
and set the nature of the columns for us (now that'd be nice), I say
it's not a bug, but just an unimplemented feature THAT PROTEL SHOULD
SERIOUSLY CONSIDER ADDING! That wasn't yelling, it was emphasizing with
vigor to the "lurkers" among us.
And, in case anybody actually reads these messages, I like Protel.
Protel is to OrCAD as SolidWorks is to AutoCAD (for those mechies among
us). Protel has put more polish on their product to improve the UI
instead of sticking with the often obtuse OrCAD interface.
Unfortunately, polish doesn't make bugs go away. They'll never get all
the bugs out, it's probabilistically impossible.
Bryn
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>In a message dated 2/19/2002 4:14:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>>I tried adding leading apostrophe & zero on footprint ('0603), in client
>>spreadsheet, and File | Update sets the footprint field without the leading
>>apostrophe. Or is the problem that there's no automatic way to know which
>>items had zeros removed?
>>
>>If there are only a couple footprints like this, you could just do global
>>edit when you're done with update, 805=>0805, etc.
>>
>
>That's what I did. Still, it seems pretty kludgy, for a "feature" which
>Protel touts in their marketing literature.
>
>Steve Hendrix
>
>
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