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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] importing tab/space delimited files into calc
From:       "Bill McKelvie" <mckelvie () cyber ! net ! pk>
Date:       2003-12-06 6:15:34
Message-ID: 000201c3bbf6$566b7e20$0000a398 () Laptop
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Dear Bruce,
Have you tried this?  (It worked with on XP):

File -> Open -> Files of Type: "Text CSV (*.csv, *.txt)"  (about 1/2 way
down
the list)
->Open (after choosing your file of course).  You should get a Text Import
dialogue.
The file name still seems to need a .csv or .txt extension.  If your file
doesn't then I'm stuck.

I had the a similar problem and the solution was not obvious to me.  As a
novice user, I would have appreciated an import sub-menu under the File
Menu.  Do others think it is worth filing an issue on this?

Blessings,

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Bowler" <bbowler@bigelow.org>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: [users] importing tab/space delimited files into calc


> 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.
>
> Thanks!
> Bruce
>
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