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I thought the phrase &quot;Aquire Text&quot; was put in by an Omnipage addon. Did you have this installed with previous excel 2003?
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I thought the phrase "Aquire Text" was put in by an Omnipage addon. Did you have this installed with previous excel 2003?

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Thank you that is entirely possible, would omnipage software come with a scanner, have not got it installed now but might have been installed before. &nbsp;It was so that a document could be scanned and hte figures come into excel so that we could use them in calculations i.e. telephone bill<br />

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Thank you that is entirely possible, would omnipage software come with a scanner, have not got it installed now but might have been installed before.  It was so that a document could be scanned and hte figures come into excel so that we could use them in calculations i.e. telephone bill


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In Excel 2003 there was a function called Acquire Text, does anyone know how we can do this in Excel 2007 please
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In Excel 2003 there was a function called Acquire Text, does anyone know how we can do this in Excel 2007 please

Acquire Text in Excel 2007

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