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------- Additional comments from brucebow...@openoffice.org Mon Aug 23 12:51:20
+0000 2010 -------
@mba, a couple of questions and a comment or 2...
Any idea *why* the UK folks rejected this idea?
What do we need to do to get past the "any delimited file" bit that some people
seem hung up on? Do we need to open a new "bug"?
What I'm looking for is for calc to "behave" the same way excel does. If I
file/open a file while I'm in excel, it will *always* open the file in excel
(baring some bizarre macro that may be running behind the scenes). If excel
can't figure out the file format (ie it's not a native XLS file or a file format
like lotus or quattro that it knows how to deal with) it asks the user for help.
I have the option of telling it "these are the delimiters" or "it's fixed width
and these are the columns on which to break the fields".
There should be no "guessing" on the part of calc what to do. Something along
the lines of (really coarse pseudo code).
if findfileformat(inputfile) == something_I_know then
open it
else
ask the user about the file
open it using the user input
endif
If the else path is taken, and it looks like crap, then the "fault" lies with
the user, just like in the excel case.
Bruce
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