[discuss] Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Watson
Hi Is there a way to import a tab delimited text file into OO Calc? Excel had a wizard that did this but can't find an equivalent in Calc. I want to import a product order file into Calc before working on the data but when I choose open file it opens as a text document rather than importing

[discuss] Funcitonality that is *not* needed in OOo

2007-04-22 Thread Lars D . Noodén
We do *not* need this kind of funcitonality: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11512/53/ -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ensure access to your data now and in the future http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute

Re: [discuss] Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Paul Watson schrieb: Hi Is there a way to import a tab delimited text file into OO Calc? Excel had a wizard that did this but can't find an equivalent in Calc. I want to import a product order file into Calc before working on the data but when I choose open file it opens as a text

[discuss] Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Watson
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:10:08 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote... Choose Insert|Sheet from file etc. Thanks, but this does nothing for me. Perhaps because my source file doesn't have an extension? In case you need further help, pls ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that via the OOo website? I'm posting

[discuss] Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Watson
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:02:54 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote... Is there a way to import a tab delimited text file into OO Calc? Excel had a wizard that did this but can't find an equivalent in Calc. I want to import a product order file into Calc before working on the data but when I

Re: [discuss] Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Paul Watson wrote: The file that I am using (and the one I want to point the macro at) does NOT have an extension. It is just called (for example) 'purchase' rather than 'purchase.csv' This is because it gets sent from a PC to an AS400 mainframe as a 'flat text file' that dosen't use/need the

Re: [discuss] Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Paul Watson schrieb: The file that I am using (and the one I want to point the macro at) does NOT have an extension. It is just called (for example) 'purchase' rather than 'purchase.csv' This is because it gets sent from a PC to an AS400 mainframe as a 'flat text file' that dosen't

Re: [discuss] Re: Styles Handling

2007-04-22 Thread jonathon
Rod Engelsman wrote: 1. Document Organization -- Lists, Numbering, Outlines, Sections, 3. Semantic Markup -- Designating portions of text as having some 4. Presentation -- Font, Size, Color, Margins, Indentation, etc. Language selection is a subset of Semantic Markup. when I hear the

[discuss] Re: Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Paul Watson
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:16:27 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote... Is there a way to get this file into Calc without giving it the extension of .csv? That would be option 2 and 3 of my list. Tried that Mathias, and whilst it works when I have given the file the .csv extension, without it, even

Re: [discuss] Re: Styles Handling

2007-04-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 21 avril 2007 à 17:10 -0500, Rod Engelsman a écrit : I, too, use styles extensively when I write but I find myself being frustrated and confounded at times. I believe the proximate cause of the problem is that the styles paradigm in Writer conflates different concepts which are

Re: [discuss] Re: Styles Handling

2007-04-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 22 avril 2007 à 06:55 +, jonathon a écrit : Maybe. Example time: In an essay discussing the YiJing, one would use the Chinese glyphs for the names of the hexagrams. Typically, these glyphs are a single character. But that's not something that should require separate

[discuss] Is this more than just brute force??

2007-04-22 Thread Paul
Interesting article about OOo password cracking: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/openoffice_password_crack/ /paul -- Vista is dramatically more secure than any other operating system released Bill Gates Huh ?? Defender doesn't stop spyware (Webroot) ; firewall is only 50% effective

[discuss] Re: Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread Russell Butler
Paul Watson wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:10:08 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote... Choose Insert|Sheet from file etc. Thanks, but this does nothing for me. Perhaps because my source file doesn't have an extension? In case you need further help, pls ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that via the OOo

Re: [discuss] Importing text file into Calc

2007-04-22 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-04-22 08:02:54, Mathias Bauer wrote: Paul Watson schrieb: Hi Is there a way to import a tab delimited text file into OO Calc? Excel had a wizard that did this but can't find an equivalent in Calc. I want to import a product order file into Calc before working on the data but when