I used to be able to enter new lines into the result pane cell for text
(and varchar) data in Enterprise Manager, but now that I am using SQL
2005 Management Studio, this feature is gone.

Is there any way to do this?

Also, copying to/from excel chops off part of the text in a cell and is
very infuriating.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dan

(monkeyboydan (AT) gmail (DOT) com) writes:
Time to learn to write INSERT and UPDATE statements, I see!

There are plenty of differences between the tools in SQL 2000 and SQL 2005.
Keep in mind that Open table is intended to be a fairly simple tool to
view and edit data. For more heavy-duty stuff, you would use an application.


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Thanks for the reply.

Your point is noted and I am quite happy to do insert and update
statements but there are occasions where a little ad-hoc editing and
copying and pasting is useful and this isn't possible any more and it
seems a bit silly 'cause it makes the 'open table' functionality
vritually pointless is a lot of occasions.