I don't mind getting an HTML editor in addition to correctly parsed data in a spreadsheet. But it does irk me when I get an HTML editor instead of correctly parsed data in a spreadsheet. Even if I right-click on the file and select open with OOo Calc, it still opens in Writer. That would seem to violate the Rule of Least Surprise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_surprise Regards, - Robert On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you notice that you also got an html editor in Ooo Writer? > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> How does one open an HTML table in OOo Calc? >> >> Windows has this cool trick that if you save a table from a web page >> as an HTML file and name it with .xls, you can open it with Excel. >> That doesn't work in Ubuntu. The same file when opened in Ubuntu, >> first opens Firefox, which asks what I want to do with the file. If I >> specify open with OOo Calc, it actually opens in OOo Writer as a >> table. I then have to Select>All, Copy, and Paste into a new OOo Calc >> sheet. And the paste part takes on the order of several minutes to >> complete, whereas opening the file happens almost instantly with >> Excel. >> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? >> >> Regards, >> - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
