Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011/3/3 Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>

> Le 02/03/11 22:23, James Wilde a écrit :
>
> Hi James,
>
> >
>
> > > 2. Activate the data source pane (F4)
> >
> > F4 doesn't have any effect on my Mac.  Cmd+F4 closes the sheet.
>  Shift+Cmd+F4 has no effect.  I double clicked on the Base table and got up
> something that looks like a Calc sheet with only one line.
> >
>
> Do you have a "Fn" key on your Mac keyboard ? If so, press that first
> and while keeping pressed, press on F4. If it a tower Mac or Mac mini as
> opposed to a Macbook then I'm not sure because it will depend on your
> keyboard. This is something that has always bothered me with the default
> key bindings that both OOo and LibO use, because most of them just
> didn't work as the documentation / help stated. It is partly Apple's
> fault for assigning specific OS functionality to the function keys, but
> also one would have thought that the OOo/LibO development cycle would
> have picked this up by now.
>
>
> > > 3. Select the data that need to be exported (Ctrl + * will select all
> the data)
> > I only selected the columns in the Calc sheet that are equivalent.
>
> You can select all of the data in the sheet, the import wizard will let
> you choose which columns to import and how to match them to your Swedish
> entries. The real gotchas are the field type detection, which seems
> sometimes to have a mind of its own against all commonsense, so as
> Regina has suggested elsewhere, you are better off checking that the
> field types suggested by the import wizard correspond to the type of
> data being imported.
>
>
>
> Alex
We of the Documentation Team are in DESPERATE need of Mac users to modify
these key / strokes for the Documentation, could you consider joining the
documentation@libreoffice.org mailing list and see what can be done ?

Thanks either way

Rogerio

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