Thanks Rich, I may look into that. I often process large .csv files for mail data and QP just isn't up to the job. Don't even want to know why, just want to dump it.
I'm in Miami for a few days, spent the morning working on some small data sets for a business project and once again my laptop with Win7 won't allow me to import records while creating ::I or ::J index fields. Problem goes away at the office where I'm running XP but on the road I keep forgetting. What I do is go back, call the data into a spreadsheet and add an index number there and it imports fine. Just another oddity that tells us that the underpinnings of DP aren't meshing will into the future. Don 2011/12/5 Rich Bragonje <[email protected]> > Hi Don, > > LibreOffice, the latest version of OpenOffice, is "compatible" with Excel, > and has the bonus of being free. http://www.libreoffice.org/ > > If you are dealing with .csv type data, then you might look at CSVed, > another freeware program, that has a lot of nice things. Sorting, filters, > etc. > > http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html > > List of features from their webpage: > > - edit, add, insert and delete items; > - import; > - change separator; > - add, delete columns; > - rearrange column order; > - save selection of rows and columns; > - save filtered items; > - save with double quotes; > - search and replace; > - filter items; > - remove duplicates; > - append and merge files; > - install and uninstall > - help in English > - add prefix and suffix > - split and join columns > - export to HTML, Excel, Word, XML and more > - proper words and strings > - column search > - column sort and global sort > > Rich > > > > At 11:16 AM 12/5/2011, you wrote: > > Hi guys . . . I keep up with the updates from Corel on WP but have a > terrible time with Quattro Pro. Regardless of the box I'm running it on it > continuously crashes when sorting any volume of data which is something I > do a lot. I also have Excel loaded but am resistant towards it as their > menu system is totally foreign to me. Am considering looking at some open > source products. Any ideas? > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > -- *Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax*
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