[Dx4win] Report Coding (Was Pre-1975 CW QSOs)

[Randy Farmer]

Quoth Bob, K2TK, as quoted by John, K2CIB:

>Another issue I have, and I'll state it is mine not a bug, is with 
>the reports.  If I do a Report/DXCC/Listing what happens is that a 
>never worked is a dot and a fully confirmed and credited item is an 
>asterisk.  More than once these tired eyes have been confused and 
>not seen the difference.   So  what I would love to see is the 
>ability to change these.  Say leave the dot out and have a blank  or 
>substitute a dash in it's place. Or  make the asterisk an  X or 
>something so the difference is more easily discernible.

It is a rather minor point, but the choice of the asterisk to denote 
a credited entity in the DX4WIN reports is a most unfortunate one for 
those of us who want to export the reports to a comma-delimited 
format and manipulate them in Excel. It seems Excel sees the asterisk 
as a "wild card" character, and all kinds of weird things can happen 
when putting the character into formulas, etc. I've had to make it a 
routine practice to first open the report.csv file in WordPad, do a 
search and replace to change the asterisk into something more 
Excel-friendly, such as X, and re-save the file before it's ready for 
Excel. It would be nice if there were some other choice than the 
asterisk, hard-coded or not.

73...
Randy, W8FN