Thanks to all who responded! I now have an .ods file I can work with.
After I learned to edit the tabs out of my original .csv file I got a
good result. Now it seems that when I reported that leading blanks in
numeric fields were causing me a problem I was mistaken, it was the
tabs. Brian's su
t, if anything, I did differently.
Regards,
Alan.
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Original message
From: Bill Dillinger
Date:15/05/2017 15:21 (GMT+00:00)
To: mar...@groenescheij.com,users@openoffice.apache.org,Brian Barker
Subject: Re: Trouble with Calc
Hello,
I have received he
At 10:21 15/05/2017 -0400, Bill Dillinger wrote:
One suggestion was to click the "Detect special numbers" option when
opening the file. I did try this and it didn't work.
I think it should. The problem is probably the tab characters that
you have only now referred to.
It was suggested to use
On Mon, 15 May 2017 10:21:21 -0400
Bill Dillinger wrote:
> Hello,
> I have received helpful suggestions from Brian and Martin and very much
> appreciate them. Thanks for the help and any additional notes that may
> yet come in. I realize now my original message was not completely clear
> becau
Hello,
I have received helpful suggestions from Brian and Martin and very much
appreciate them. Thanks for the help and any additional notes that may
yet come in. I realize now my original message was not completely clear
because I did not fully understand my problem. As was suggested by both
On 14/05/17 5:22 AM, Bill Dillinger wrote:
Hello,
I can't seem to manage Calc with even a simple problem. I am trying to
read and work with a spreadsheet made from a .csv file with columns of
numbers. I really have tried to read and work with the HELP file.
First I could not add 4 numbers b
Hello,
I can't seem to manage Calc with even a simple problem. I am trying to
read and work with a spreadsheet made from a .csv file with columns of
numbers. I really have tried to read and work with the HELP file.
First I could not add 4 numbers but with lots of tries found that it
seemed to
