On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:05:25PM -0700, Tom Lahti wrote:
> > Using OO 3.2
> >    (*) Separated by
> > 
> >        [x] Tab         [ ] Comma
> >        [ ] Semicolon   [ ] Space
> > 
> > = broken :(
> > 
> > I'll ask the original problem finder what app she was using.
> 
> Does the data contain embedded tabs?  If so, tab-delimited ain't gonna work.
> 
> Is she sure she did TAB separated?  Doing comma or space separated would 
> jumble the data for sure.
> 
> Also look out for column widths.  The spreadsheet can -look- like the data is 
> jumbled when in fact it isn't if the column widths aren't uniform, which in 
> some programs they often aren't immediately upon an import like that.  They 
> -look- jumbled to me in OO as well, but then I go through and adjust column 
> widths and its peachy.

Without a sample of what is wrong, or a better description of the bug,
I have to assume that the original reporter either wants to come up to
3.8.8 or apply 1f4fa271b9e9c78104257f729f3046f9c30694e0 which fixes a
bug where the column headers and column bodies might not be in sync.

-kevin

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