Re: Copying Reports to the Clipboard

[ Message Board ] [ Archives ] [ Search ]

Posted by Mark on January 11, 2007 at 09:25:32:

In Reply to: Copying Reports to the Clipboard posted by John Swanson on January 11, 2007 at 07:16:00:

: I am having trouble copying the full text of a memo field in a report to the clipboard to paste into excel. When it goes to the clipboard, only a part of the memo field seems to be copied, even if the entire field is shown in the Fund Manager Report. For example, in Fund Manager the memo is "(Imported) Bought 37.000 MDY: MIDCAP SPDR TRUST" but all that gets copied is "(Imported) Bought 37." Or the memo field contains "Distributed Other from EWY: ISHARES INC MSCI SOUTH KOREAN" and what is pasted is "Distributed Other fr." Am I doing something wrong, or must it be truncated?

Hi John,

This is a limitation of the program. When copying the investment transaction report to the clipboard, the memo column is clipped to 20 characters. There's not a real good reason for this, so we'll plan to change it to the maximum possible memo width (60) for the next release. The reason it is clipped to 20 is to try and keep the report smaller and easier to read in text format.

Thanks,
Mark
--
Fund Manager - Portfolio Management Software

Replies: