Ok, here's a request to those alot more experienced than I am. Here's what I'm looking to do and am looking for some feedback
- overall intent is to convert inputted data to evenly spaced columns of data - or an evenly spaced text table from copied data from excel
- create a tool where excel data is copied to a section - could be textbox, listview, etc, have observed that tabs are placed in between columns of data
- user would copy data from excel or html tables, and click a button to paste into the input data section
- user would select options then hit a button to convert data to aligned columns
- user then would copy the modified text table to the clipboard so then could be pasted into text based software
- input would be approx 15 columns wide and 100 rows long
- has an option to also enter 'space pipe character space' in between rows
- option also includes the number of spaces between columns, ie, from 2 to 6 spaces between columns
- this is work related tool for a monospacial font to handle various type of information exported from excel and create evenly spaced rows - could also be used for notepad or notepad++ without formatting
- we use excel tools with hidden rows that I don't want included - ie, if copy from excel with hidden columns, don't want that info to be placed into the converted text table
- included is a preliminary GUI and some sample information in the attached excel file
- temp files can be used to utilize clipboard to copy and paste data