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by a cursor command. Here’s an example: to insert the line "2,55£ 5.99£ 65£"
in a worksheet, it suffices to replace the symbol "£" by <Tab> to place the indi-
vidual figures in separate cells.
MORE FUN FOR NUMBER CRUNCHERS
Entering tabular data in a spreadsheet is one of the most popular IRISPen
applications. Actually, the IRISPen is capable of entering numbers faster and
more accurately than any human being can. It’s a text book example of “machine
beats man”!
The IRISPen will recognize your tables of figures with even more precision
when you set the reading mode to numeric. This is accomplished in the IRISPen
application window. Doing so limits the set of recognized characters to numeric
symbols, in which case you will only recognize the characters '0' to '9' and some
punctuation symbols such as ".", ",", some currencies - the dollar and Euro sign
etc. By doing this, you eliminate any chance of recognition errors such as the
confusion between '5' and "S", '0' and "O", '9' and "g", '8' and "B" etc.
In fact, you can fully customize the set of recognized characters for your
encoding utilities by creating character subsets that exclusively contain those
symbols you want to recognize. (Each time you do, the recognition speed is in-
creased somewhat.)
An example: you want to read figures from a price list. Unfortunately, the
price list also contains some currency symbols such as $ and £. The standard
numeric character mode obviously won’t do. You can nevertheless read such
data faultlessly by extending the basic numeric symbol set with the symbols "$"
and "£".
Click on the "Output Subset" button on the toolbar (or select the command
"Output Subset" under the "Settings" menu).
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