Andrew, On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 12:35 -0700, Andrew Foss wrote:
> I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many > times > in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying > to > open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the programmers have > gone > to great lengths to stop one doing what you wants and needs to do. > Obviously, > if one is inside Calc, any file one tries to open should open inside Calc. > That's a no brainer. > > > How can I work around this problem? I tried tyo merge in the file but that > also > failed. I tried changing the file extension but LO ignored that. I tried > caopy/paste into Calc but Calc failed to put each tab delimited field into a > separate cell so that failed. Hopeless! > > Help!!!! > > The default behavior can be irritating, it sometimes gets in the way. One option is to right click on the document, select open with and the select Calc. It should show an import wizard asking you what the delimiter is. Make the appropriate choices and click OK. It may take a couple of minutes for it open but it should be in Calc. Hope this helps. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
