[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc macro to open tab delimited data file?

Am 07.03.2012 19:24, fork wrote:
> Andreas Säger<villeroy<at>  t-online.de>  writes:
>
> > May be you did not notice that LibreOffice remembers the import settings
> > for text files.
> > If you need to open the same type of file repeatedly, you can specify
> > the import options once and next time you simply confirm the dialog.
>
> Yes, and that is great.  The only steps I want to streamline are (1) the drop
> down to get to "csv/text", and the step where I choose all columns to be text
> format.  And really, I would like to avoid confirming the dialogue.
>
> It works fine the way it is, it is just that I open hundreds of these things a
> day, and getting rid of 4 clicks per document would be a real time saver.

How many different keystrokes does it take to write a macro compared to 
the Enter key you are supposed to hit in order to confirm the dialog 10 
times a day? 50 times?
Better you hit Enter a thousand times. My contingent of silly Basic code 
is exhausted for the rest of the week.


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