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# Tom R

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Visual Form Builder] Some entry fields not exporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/)
 *  [Tom R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomrup/)
 * (@tomrup)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/#post-3710282)
 * I don’t think you can get the old entries stored against the new form without
   going directly into the SQL database. I am not remotely qualified to tell you
   how to do that, and would say be VERY CAREFUL and back EVERYTHING up before you
   go in!
 * I’m fortunate as I was testing a new form that only had dummy data in it, so 
   no harm was done.
 * PS…Might it be worth saying “please” to the dev? For free or even $10 this is
   an awesome bit of work.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Visual Form Builder] Some entry fields not exporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/)
 *  [Tom R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomrup/)
 * (@tomrup)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/#post-3710279)
 * grrr. the entity was '
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Visual Form Builder] Some entry fields not exporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/)
 *  [Tom R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomrup/)
 * (@tomrup)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/#post-3710278)
 * I removed all the apostrophes from the field names and all the data was exported.
   Seems to be an issue with entities in field names – the apostrophes were being
   exported as `'`.
 * Smart quotes is disabled on my server.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Visual Form Builder] Some entry fields not exporting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/)
 *  [Tom R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomrup/)
 * (@tomrup)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-entry-fields-not-exporting/#post-3710276)
 * I had the same issue and noticed that the columns that weren’t exporting had 
   apostrophes in them (eg Child's surname). Just did an experiment by duplicating
   the form, removing the apostrophe from the label from one of the missing columns
   and exporting the data from the duplicate form. The columns with apostrophes 
   in their titles were still empty, but the one without was populated.
 * Does this suggest what the issue is?

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