[newbie] OpenOffice.org starts in different language!

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Konosky
I installed OpenOffice during the installation, and everything else installed with English as the default languae, but for some reason open office opens in something thats similar to spanish. I went to the language setting and tried different versions of English EUA, Canada, Australia, etc,

[newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting

2004-06-08 Thread Johan Sch
Hi list, Mandrake 10.0. It seems that OpenOffice.org.1.1.0 got to be started twice. Have not been using it much before so this was not known to me. First click on it..then shows starting for a while and goes away..nothing happens. Second time..click again..show start and after a while the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting

2004-06-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:59, Johan Sch wrote: Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a way to fix this. No, it's not the way it should be. Could you be more specific what on exactly you're clicking on? For more verbose output you could try starting from the commandline using ooffice

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting

2004-06-08 Thread Johan Sch
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:49:15 +0200 Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:36:03 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:59, Johan Sch wrote: Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a way to fix this. No, it's not the way it

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting

2004-06-08 Thread Marc Lijour
Le June 8, 2004 03:31 pm, Johan Sch a écrit : On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:49:15 +0200 Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:36:03 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:59, Johan Sch wrote: Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use getbinnews instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I got it. Will give it a try. I just wish I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-05 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:27:42 +, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted the ~/.openoffice folder which contains my personal OpenOffice configuration. Whenever something gets messed up, one of the first things I normally do is delete the personal config files. Do a ls -a to see all the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it I just (re)installed it in 10.0. I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 01 May 2004 10:53:46 +0300 schreef rhein: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe Only if you installed the entire OO-software in .openoffice. I suppose you didn't. Paul -- Isn't it a pity that the french

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread B McKee
Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in your home folder

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread rhein
B McKee wrote: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it I just (re)installed it in 10.0. I have an Athlon 1000 mhz box, with 768 megs of RAM (I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-30 Thread robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Ariestao1
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:41 pm, Miark wrote: Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. But it could be my

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Marc Lijour
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread rhein
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread robin
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Marc Lijour
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%. I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:32:32 +0300, robin wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing running at the time was top itself at about 1%.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 19:41, Miark wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Ariestao1
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't know

[newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-28 Thread Marc Lijour
I have downloaded StarOffice7 from SUN website, which by the way is free for education (read the license). SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. I use SO at school to teach my computer courses.

[newbie] OpenOffice.org

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello the list, What is the latest OpenOffice.org version I can install on Mandrake 8.2? Will the system allow me to install 1.0.1, which comes as a part of 9.0 version? -- Robert mailto:golovniov;interia.pl -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=-

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org bug

2002-10-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:38, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:08:43 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Bug On my Windows versions oo.o 1.0 1.0.1 the buttons on the toolbar usually load degraded, in other words the image for the button is distorted. Has anyone

[newbie] OpenOffice.org bug

2002-10-12 Thread Michael Adams
Obviously OpenOffice.org is the place to report this but i got a headache trying to find the right place to look up and see if it already existed. Is it an API issue or other? What the fish is API. FAQ's, IssueZilla and all other attemps to find my way to the right spot just led me in circles.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org bug

2002-10-12 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:08:43 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Bug On my Windows versions oo.o 1.0 1.0.1 the buttons on the toolbar usually load degraded, in other words the image for the button is distorted. Has anyone heard of this before. I am running it on w98 and a

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-07-02 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-07-01 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely throughout the world it's

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-07-01 Thread RichardA
shane, Monday 01 July 2002 17:21: On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how widely throughout the world it's available.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-30 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:56 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Linux Format shows up in the US chain bookstores (Borders, etc) about two months later. They must use the old raft from Kon Tiki or something. That's OK, though -- I tend to run a little

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-29 Thread Graham Watkins
Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: It does. That seems the best course of action, especially as I usually buy from Linux Emporium. On another thread it was pointed out that there might be an advantage in obtaining both the download and boxed sets of latest

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:54, Miark wrote: That is what I wanted to check. Downloading impossible at 28.8 kbs. Why impossible? Download only at night, and use a download manager so you can resume the download each night. Shouldn't take more than two nights--it's not _that_ big a

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-24 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: As Shane pointed out the RPMs we could send you are for Mandrake 8.2 so there is not much point sending it to you. However if you go to http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ they can send you the latest Openoffice (I imagine it will be a .tgz file) for

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-23 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 June 2002 09:12 am, shane did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: anyone real close to there want to mail a CD with OO.o rpms for 8.1? if nobody replies i will see if i can burn one tues or wednessday for ya. wait, i am

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-23 Thread Miark
That is what I wanted to check. Downloading impossible at 28.8 kbs. Why impossible? Download only at night, and use a download manager so you can resume the download each night. Shouldn't take more than two nights--it's not _that_ big a download. Miark Want to buy your Pack or

OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Stormjumper
hmm, what's FROFFL??? - Original Message - From: Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:59 AM Subject: Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, johan wrote: ROFL I will double that ;-) Or just make it FROFFL

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
Subject: Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, johan wrote: ROFL I will double that ;-) Or just make it FROFFL -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Stormjumper
lol. should have guessed something like that... my bad. :) - Original Message - From: Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:52 PM Subject: Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 Forking Rolling On the Floor Forking Laughing

Re: OT was Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:52 am, Ralph Slooten did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Forking Rolling On the Floor Forking Laughing ;-) you forked twice? can we assume all 4 ralphs are doing fine? - -- The universe is a figment of its

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:15 pm, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. Already have SO 5.2. do yourself a favor and download

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-22 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 03:32 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: You want an RPM of OO1.0? You have plenty of bandwidth? Then try Rangers version

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 June 2002 07:10, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't explain why your setup fails but I've installed from both LXM CD

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread et
what does df (without the quotes) tell you about avilabile space? On Friday 21 June 2002 02:10 am, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 7:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK - 644 on all the zip files. I also tried logging in as root - no dice. Tried ./install --interactive. Placed trace

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 07:10, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't explain why your

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 June 2002 01:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK -

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, et wrote: what does df (without the quotes) tell you about avilabile space? On Friday 21 June 2002 02:10 am, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 7:10 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Permissions OK - ... Out of

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:15 pm, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. Already have SO 5.2. do yourself a favor and download openoffice. 5.2 is terrible comparatively.

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 June 2002 03:32 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: You want an RPM of OO1.0? You have plenty of bandwidth? Then try Rangers version http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=213 9

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-21 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres 21 Juny 2002 08:10, en Len Lawrence va escriure: Thanks for your help. Tried all that, to no avail. Have you checked if it is in /root ?? That was my default directory -and I changed it to /usr/local/- -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread poogle
On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks distributed with Linux Format and Linux Magazine? The files are the same, .tar.gz which end up as a few hundred ZIP files in the install directory. On my system the

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread mightyjose
Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread johan
ROFL - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:18 PM Subject: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0 Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly

Re: Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, johan wrote: ROFL I will double that ;-) Or just make it FROFFL -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re:Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1024597034-3574-556 Try Star-office, it is more solid and user friendly. Already have SO 5.2. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, robin wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks distributed with Linux Format and Linux Magazine? The files are the same, .tar.gz which end up as a few hundred ZIP files in the install directory. On my system

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-20 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, poogle wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:30 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Has anybody tried to install OpenOffice 1.0 from the CD/DVD cover disks I can't explain why your setup fails but I've installed from both LXM CD LXF DVD into Mandrake 8.2, here's how I did it if it

[newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 12 Feb 2002 09:25:51 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Assuming that OpenOffice.org can't do it itself... Have a look to see if there is any way to convert this file into a format that can be read in

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Holt
Paul, I asked on the OpenOffice.org Discuss list. These are the answers I got: How to Import a pipe delimited text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul This is a common scenario if you are dealing with output from a 'nix database (Ingres, MySQL both come to mind). When you do an