From openoffice-users  Mon Dec 08 20:31:05 2003
From: Ain Vagula <ain () riiska ! ee>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:31:05 +0000
To: openoffice-users
Subject: Re: [users] Re: importing tab/space delimited files into calc
Message-Id: <200312082231.06522.ain () riiska ! ee>
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CPH:
> On Monday 08 December 2003 14:46, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 11:15:34 +0500, Bill McKelvie put fingers to keyboard
> >
> > and said:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Thanks for the above, you're right it works fine if the file is .csv or
> > .txt.  My problem is that it's neither of those and for various reasons,
> > I can't rename it (well I could, but then I'd have to rename it back for
> > processing by another program, for which we don't have source and expects
> > a certain file extension.)
>
> When you do "File" -> "Open" change the "file type" to "Text CSV" and it
> will work
>
> CPH
>

A bit offtopic, but this seems to be broken in 680_m13 and m15?

ain