Charles Fenwick wrote:
Hello all.
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The Florida Division of Elections provides election downloadable
election results in the form of .dat files
(http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/downloadresults.asp?ElectionDate=11/4/80&DATAMODE=
, for example)
The download page offers this description:
"When selecting the 'Download' button below, a tab-delimited file of
election results will be downloaded to your machine. The format of
this file can be opened and further processed in most spreadsheet and
database programs."
So on my first try I downloaded the file to Desktop and double clicked
on it. Since it was an unregistered extension, I was asked which
program I wanted to open the file with. I selected OpenOffice and the
file proceeded to open in Writer. Not what I was hoping for.
My second try involved going into Control Panel to register the .dat
extension to open in Calc. After doing that, I tried opening the file
again. Same results.
Those were my best ideas, I've tried a couple of things that I thought
were long-shots and indeed they did not work either.
Assistance, of course, would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Have you tried renaming the file with a .csv extension?
Doug
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