This is hopeless… You can see the problem - the formatting of the text, which displays fine in the rhino notepad, doesn’t translate to the actual screen. Surely, in 2016, there has to be a simple way of importing text, a table, a spreadsheet into rhino? To get this far, i have had to paste the te…

[image] rabbit: You can see the problem - the formatting of the text, which displays fine in the rhino notepad, doesn’t translate to the actual screen. Are you using the same font in Rhino as you are in Notepad?

Yes Dale - I just re-checked. The font in both cases is Arial… Thanks rabbit

Arial is a proportionally spaced font, thus nearly impossible to get “stuff” to align in a tabular way. You might consider using a fixed space font. If you can’t find a fixed space font you like, try inserting text one column at a time.

Well, I tried courier new - same thing. If you can get a tabbed set of text in from word or excel to rhino, keeping the layout, I’d sure like to see it, and have you describe how you did it… Cheers rabbit

If your text includes tab characters, try converting them to spaces before importing/converting to Rhino text…

Well, its better, but you see its still not right - theres a mis-match in the “pipe” & “SectionA” columns… Thanks for your help, but surely it cant be this hard? Formatting with spaces is not really a “solution” is it? We just need to be able to paste a set of cells from excel, or a table from wor…

The attached text file produced the attached 3dm file. I have both Notepad and Rhino using the Consolas font. [image] Is this what you want? Rabbit.txt (612 Bytes) Rabbit.3dm (23.9 KB)

[image] dale: Is this what you want? Not @rabbit here… Just restating what he wrote… [image] rabbit: Formatting with spaces is not really a “solution” is it? … and agreeing with that.

[image] Helvetosaur: But the referenced web page now appears to be blank… Which, of course, only adds additional support to the argument…

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Well, there was this (look down towards the bottom of the thread)…

But the referenced web page now appears to be blank…

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