Jeff, et all, I think it has been doing this for years. I just remember to change the Data Type to ".xls" and all is well.
Kenn LBNL On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kevin Falcone <falc...@bestpractical.com>wrote: > 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 >