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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] importing tab/space delimited files into calc
From:       CPH <cphennessy () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2003-12-06 19:09:23
Message-ID: 200312061909.23909.cphennessy () openoffice ! org
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On Friday 05 December 2003 18:01, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the first to come across this "problem", but obviosly my
> skills at formatting the proper query to google are poor enough that I
> can't find an answer...
>
> I'm using OOo 1.1.0 on a RHL 8+ box (8.0 with lots of upgrades).  I start
> calc with the command /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/scalc.
>
> I click on File>>open and select a file that is a tab delimited (or space
> delimited, doesn't matter) text file and it opens the file in writer.  How
> can I convince OOo to open it in calc *WITHOUT* renaming the file.

One of 2 ways :
1) rename you file so that it has the extension .csv
2) in the file open dialog change the file type to "Text CSV"

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