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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: importing tab/space delimited files into calc
From:       Michael A Chase <mchase () ix ! netcom ! com>
Date:       2003-12-09 16:58:29
Message-ID: pan.2003.12.09.16.58.24.762866 () ix ! netcom ! com
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:46:06 -0500, Bruce Bowler wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 11:15:34 +0500, Bill McKelvie put fingers to
> keyboard and said:
> 
>> 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.)

The file type selection does include a filter for file extensions, but you
should be able to override it by typing "*.xxx" (without the quotes) in
the File Name field.  I just loaded a file, name.txx, into a spreadsheet.

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OOo: 1.1.0rc5 645m19(Build:8693)

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