Carriage return is giving me a column break.

I don't know why, but just hitting a simple carrage return is giving me a coulumn break. I'm not sure how to make this stop?

TwitchOSX wrote:
Yea, but if it works, it works =)
The point is it DOESN'T work if the keybord binds both keys together. First of all, you don't get a paragraph break, you get a force line break, which is not the same at all, and second, if the keys are bound tegether the numlock will toggle that back and forth between the forced line break and the frame break, just as without the shift it toggles paragraph return and column break. This is a BIOS problem, or perhaps a keyboard problem, and it cannot be "fixed" in ID, only worked around by editing keyboard shorcuts so both the regular and numpad enter keys are both assigned to the same tasks.

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I have a requirement to display a customers address in 1 column of a PDF report.
The address is stored in the RPD as Address1, Address2, etc. etc.
I use the answer of the question "Carriage Returns / Line Breaks" as a basic startup.
( Question Registered the 02/24/10 from user12673225 )
I get a great result in the HTML report.
But, when I print the report in PDF the HTML control codes appear in the PDF report.
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Presently I generate the report in HTML then I convert it in PDF format.
Is there a way to print the report directly in PDF without the html control appearing in clear in the pdf file. Is is possible to do the job in one step only?
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I just want to state here that ALL the column names are definitely correct. I attempted to isolate the problem using my SQL*Plus Interface.
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Ok. I feel ashamed that the answer was so simple and not the
problem I thought it was. But in the interests of perhaps
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it gets truncated or wrapped at an inappropriate place? To test
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of the ORDER BY, instead of in front of the AND, and see if it
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>
Please update your forum profile with a real handle instead of "user9211286".
Here is my problem: I created a table containing a field COMMENT varchar2(4000) and using APEX 4.1 I built an interactive report on it.
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I tried and set all the possible field types, but I found no ways to display the content exactly as it is (with carriage returns).
Obviously I cannot use HTML
, since I cannot ask users to digit it when inserting their text.
Could someone suggest me how to reach this result? In need to use the interactive report because the searching/filtering tool is fundamental.Use a CSS style sheet with attribute selectors. Put this in the page HTML Header, replacing the <tt>T_EMP_NAME</tt> etc selectors with the actual <tt>id</tt> attributes of your column headers:
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With regard to XML, it could well be an issue has crept in because I am using another utility to convert my csv's to xml and maybe there are better options out there. I will take a look for other utilities and try that (Its not possible from Excel easily, even though there is an option to save as an XML file).
Secondly, because the XML was readable by internet explorer, I assumed it had a satisfactory standard XML format which would be accepted by any program, including InDesign. This proved true, since the XML file i generated was actually recognised by my Indesign document and populated the tags correctly, albeit without any carriage returns.
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I should have corrected it, but I intend on using semi-colons as my csv delimiter and don't intend on having semi-colons in my excel sheet itself, so I possibly won't need any double-quotes.
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vii) Apply the find/replace GREP rule on the whole document. Carriage returns on my text fields should be consistent with my original excel sheet.
Thanks for all your help fellas. Will report on how I get on once Im done.
Best Regards
L

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