Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

Hi :)

Where do you get the tab delimited file from?  Does it offer a Csv (comma 
separated values) option as well?  If so then Csv is the more normal method of 
transferring data.  


Proprietary systems do try to throw a curved ball into the mix to force people 
to go over to their systems for everything but Calc devs are probably able to 
adapt fairly easily to this particular challenge.  It might help to find a 
bug-report or write one
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)





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From: Andrew Foss <shrisource@yahoo.ca>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 20:35:06
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many  times 
in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel.  However, trying to 
open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems  the programmers have gone 
to great lengths to stop one doing what you  wants and needs to do. Obviously, 
if one is inside Calc, any file one  tries to open should open inside Calc. 
That's a no brainer. 


How can I work around this problem? I tried tyo merge in the file but  that also 

failed. I tried changing the file extension but LO ignored  that. I tried 
caopy/paste into Calc but Calc failed to put each tab  delimited field into a 
separate cell so that failed. Hopeless!

Help!!!!


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