On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:05 +0000, C A Wills wrote: > Any ideas how I can sort this out please. > > Up until 2 months ago Talktalk bills had an option to export in CSV > which was great - no problems getting it into OOo spreadsheet. > They have now dropped that option and given:- Excel, OS X or PDF. > > Tried for over 2.5 hrs to convert but failed. > Each time I tried opening their Excel option it converted to OOo Word! > even trying by opening from within OOo Calc still opened text. > > Is there a way of either converting from Excel or PDF? As far as I know > you can only read PDF. Would really like to carry on using my Calc > spreadsheet easily. > > Have managed to copy and paste direct from the data shown in firefox to > an open spreadsheet, but it required moving cells and deleting > rows/columns before being usable; but it took time. > > Any ideas? > > Clive > What goes wrong? I am on T-T too so can try with mine. I have recently had some fun with my BU Excel timesheet modified and used in OO calc (3.2) and then tried to use it in Excel. The macros are different.
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