Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice --convert-to question

On 14/12/2024 17:36, Fred James wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
> > OS: Mageia8 Linux
> > LO: 7.4.5.1
> >
> > The following (CLI) command ...
> > libreoffice --convert-to txt:"Text - txt - csv (StarCalc)" 
> > budget_2024.ods
> > ... produces a CSV text file, but apparently only of the first 
> > spreadsheet in the file.
> > If I can only have one sheet, I want the 14th sheet
> >
> > Can I specify the sheet I want, or can I get the whole file?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to to offer
> > Regards
> > Fred James
> I received a reply that indicated that maybe some additional 
> information might be in order ... so ...hope this helps ...
>  ...
> There are 17 files and growing ... one per year
> I want to write a program to address each of those files, one at a time
> For each file then, I want to search it for any occurrence of a word 
> .. not where it is necessarily, but that it is there one or more times.
> Once I know which file or files the word is in, I can locate it with 
> the "find" tool within LO.
>
> I can do the programing ... I am just stuck on this conversion issue
> Thanks again
> Regards
> Fred James
Approaching this from a different angle, you could convert to PDF, which 
should contain all sheets, and then search that pdf for your word with 
something like pdfgrep.
Steve

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