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C.Walter
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 Posted - 03/12/2007 : 05:34:59 AM
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Origin Version : 7.5
Operating System: WinXp SP2
I tried to find anything related to this "problem" but i was not succesfull (not in this forum and not in google).
The problem is:
What actually are the requirements for names in Origins Worksheets? It seems to differ from time to time and that is really annoying. Sometimes I can get 10 characters to work, but sometimes I´m only allowed to use 7 and thats way to less. Whats the hidden parameter which defines that? Sometimes it even happens that when I change a name, a window that say "name not allowed, choose another one" pops up and if I reenter the same name I wrote before, it suddenly works.
And some other questions:
1. Why am I not allowed to start a worksheet name with a number?
2. Why is it not allowed to have some _ within the worksheet names?
Thanks for all help.
Regards,
Christian Walter |
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Mike Buess
USA
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Posted - 03/12/2007 : 08:13:20 AM
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Hi Christian,
The maximum length of a worksheet name is determined by two factors: (1) It can never contain more than 13 characters and (2) the sum of the number of characters in the worksheet and column names cannot exceed 23. The latter restriction is actually on the length of a dataset name, wksName_colName.
http://www.originlab.com/www/support/resultstech.aspx?ID=1103&language=English#OBJ
1. Not sure, but that's been the case since I started using Origin (3.0).
2. The dataset name of a column is wksName_colName so allowing '_' in worksheet or column name would lead to (LabTalk) programming errors.
Mike Buess
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C.Walter
Germany
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 06:55:17 AM
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thx for the help, this seems to solve some of my problems.
But one question remains. If "_" arent allowed because of some programming errors, why am I not allowed to use "-" oder "." ore some other sign to optically divide two words from each other?
Because this makes working with different Worksheets quite hard(e.g. data for the same sample from different dates etc.).
Or is there another way to achieve that? |
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Mike Buess
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 08:00:18 AM
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Hi Christian,
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But one question remains. If "_" arent allowed because of some programming errors, why am I not allowed to use "-" oder "." ore some other sign to optically divide two words from each other?
Special characters are not allowed in any window or column name. I use the window/column label as a description or "long name".
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C.Walter
Germany
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Posted - 03/19/2007 : 10:13:31 AM
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well, in graphs it is allowed. And that is why it seems a bit strange to me that worksheet names are not allowed to use special characters.
But ok, I will try it with the Labels then.. |
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Worksheet Names?