Pasting Text With Tabs Behaves Differently in PGD 16

[hurricane51]

I have a problem with pasting lines of text that include Tabs.

I was previously using PGD 11. I have a text are defined, and I periodically paste new text in that area, replacing or adding to the existing text. The lines of text are quite simple, nearly identical. The sentence includes two tabs. It's a simple matter of copying a line of unformatted text from another program and pasting it into the PGD document. It's always worked fine.

When I opened the document in PGD16 and tried to paste the text in, PGD didn't seem to understand the tabs. It behaved as if I had a double tab stop in each line. When I tried to edit the text, simply deleting the (hidden) tab seemed to work, but pressing the tab key still put in two tabs. If I pressed Del (or Backspace) twice (so as to delete the "mystery" tab, it started to delete characters of text. I'm at a loss to explain what's happening.

I know this is difficult to explain in writing. I've tried uploading two GIF files, but all I get is is an exclamation mark next to the file names and a button to Clear List. They conform to the restrictions for GIF attachments. There's no explanation given as to why I can't upload the files.

[gwpriester]

I have moved this to Dear Xara, the forum to post bug reports or suggestions for features and functions.

[Egg Bramhill]

Without seeing an example it's difficult to see. When you import the text are you selecting HTML text or Plain Text?

[mwenz]

have you created/used text styles?
if you did use text styles, did you actually set tabs and update the text style?
if you used text styles, when you paste is there a plus symbol next to the text style name?
i get plain text when pasting from a text editor. are you pasting from other than a text editor?

mike