I guess an easy way would be to save as a CSV file, open in a text editor and then search and replace. SciTe, which is an editor that I got with Autoit 3, is lovely and fast for things like that and can edit thousands of lines in a few seconds. You can also use notepad which ships as part of windows but this is significantly slower.
Lynn -----Original Message----- From: Terry Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2007 07:18 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Removing formatting marks from Calc cells I hope I can explain this clearly: I use Calc (OOo 2.1, Windows XP Home, SP2) to open an .xls file created by a FoxPro 2.4 (DOS) application. Don't ask why, it would take too long. Some fields contain a ' (single quote or tick) at the beginning of the content. From memory, this is how Lotus 123 indicated that what followed should be treated as text, rather than a numerical value. I need to remove these formatting marks so that dates are treated as dates and numbers as numbers. I have tried Search and Replace, copying the ' and pasting it into the "Search" field, but I receive a disheartening beep and "Search string not found". I can manually remove then by using F2,Home,Delete,<Enter>, but that's a bit pedestrian. I've also tried recording a macro to automate these keystrokes, but that simply replaces the content of every cell with the content of the one I used to make the recording. Can it be done, and if so, how? Terry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
