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Hi Andrew,

Andrew Foss schrieb:
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.

That is not so obvious. Word and Excel are different programs, Word can only handle text documents and Excel can only handle spreadsheets. But LibreOffice is not a collection of 6 programs (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, Base), but is is one program, that offers different UIs for the different tasks. Therefore a file, that looks like a text file will be opened in Writer as long as you don't determine explicitly what part to use. And a tab delimited text file contains nothing, which indicates that it is not a text file.



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!

(1) Inside LibreOffice use File > Open. It does not matter where you are. It might be Writer or Impress or wherever. You get a file picker dialog.
(2) Select the file you want to open.
(3) The dialog has a drop-down list 'file type'. Open it and scroll down to the section where are the spreadsheet formats. Choose type 'Text CSV (*.csv,*.txt)'. Open. (4) You get the import dialog. Set the needed parameters. Be careful about language, date and number formats.

Kind regards
Regina

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