On 2010-11-23 4:36 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Ok, first real issue I've had with LibO...
> 
> I have an old phone system that generates reports in CVS format.
> 
> OOo always opened these with the number columns formatted as - numbers.
> 
> LibO is formatting *some* of them as text fields, and when I change them
> to numbers with no decimals (to remove the .00 it is adding to them that
> OOo also never did), it adds the stupid ' character to the beginning of
> every cell, thus making it impossible to format these as numbers.
> 
> How can I easily remove the ' symbol from the beginning of every field?

Never mind - played with the 'Other options' when importing the CSV,
unchecking 'Quoted field as text' and checking 'Detect special numbers'
fixed the import up...

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Best regards,

Charles

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