On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:05 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > For the past three years this issue has gone unresolved. In an > attempt to bring more attention to this BUG, I am reaching out to my > community. I am pleading for someone to resolve this issue. Every > developer that uses Ooo for manipulating data and saving it as a CSV file > has to find another application (MS Excel) to get there work done. Please > help us. > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4925 >
Try this in excel: Format a column short so that you get #### for field overflow. Write to a CSV file. Look at it, the field is ### in the export file. There are flaws with the MS model. There probably should be an option however I have heard that the major problem is the lack of certain functions (from spreadsheet people). Basically what is your major problem is not others. There are other methods of solving your problem so you could work around it or just work with your own external formatting rules therefore it is not a major show stopper even for you. It is more of an annoyance. CSV is a really bad format, I have seen csv files from excel loaded into excel that are totally different. I have seen interoperability problems with csv files between applications. I STRONGLY recommend you abandon csv files as a method of transporting data between applications. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
