Tabulated Legal Description

[jackbooda]

I have a very lengthy description that needs to have the calls arranged in rows and columns. As SurvCad makes no allowance for this, has anyone had quick and positive results exporting the TXT (created by SurvCad's Legal Decription Writer) to either Word or Excel?

Excel does allow data to be imported and even delimited by comma and/or semicolons, but neither delimiter will act as a Hard Break that will change rows. The present result is single row with several hundred columns! If a comma could be used as the column delimiter and a semicolon used for the rows, our problems would be cured.

Obviously there has to be a easier way. I would sure appreciate if you would share your method of writing tabulated legal descriptions.

[TJ]

Just to clarify, are you looking for just the bearings in one column and the distances in another? I'm not familiar with tabulated descriptions, but if this is what you're trying accomplish I think I have a procedure that might work.
TJ

[jackbooda]

First column to be the bearing, second column to be the distance, and a third column to be the corner description. A fourth column could be helpful as well, so the third could be a brief descriptor such as "setstone" or "12"oak" based on the CRD file, and the fourth column could allow a more elaborate description as needed.

The lenghty description needs to be aligned underneath itself, not going all the way back to the left hand side of the page. That way the entire description remains in a column of its own. I attempted to construct an example here, but the auto formatting condensed all my columns.

Ideally, any future surveyor could very quickly plot the 147 calls for a quick deed-check and later go back and annotate as needed. I know I hate plowing through a 2 page paragraph trying to find that one call going to the " big maple on the hillside."

Thank you for your time and attention,

[TJ]

Jack

I have a little pdf showing the procedure. Email me at tj@vanmar.com & I'll send it over.
TJ