Hi Andrew,
Andrew Foss schrieb:
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.
That is not so obvious. Word and Excel are different programs, Word can
only handle text documents and Excel can only handle spreadsheets. But
LibreOffice is not a collection of 6 programs (Writer, Calc, Draw,
Impress, Math, Base), but is is one program, that offers different UIs
for the different tasks.
Therefore a file, that looks like a text file will be opened in Writer
as long as you don't determine explicitly what part to use. And a tab
delimited text file contains nothing, which indicates that it is not a
text file.
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!
(1) Inside LibreOffice use File > Open. It does not matter where you
are. It might be Writer or Impress or wherever. You get a file picker
dialog.
(2) Select the file you want to open.
(3) The dialog has a drop-down list 'file type'. Open it and scroll down
to the section where are the spreadsheet formats. Choose type 'Text CSV
(*.csv,*.txt)'. Open.
(4) You get the import dialog. Set the needed parameters. Be careful
about language, date and number formats.
Kind regards
Regina
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