https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89312
Bug ID: 89312
Summary: 'csv' Files are Opened as Text Documents if Writer is
the Active Window
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.4.0.3 release
Hardware: Other
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
A csv file is generally used to store structured data which can be represented
in a spreadsheet. Hence to my opinion csv files should be opened with Calc by
default. Only if a user explicitly selects “Text document” a csv file should be
opened with Writer. This is currently not always the case or possible.
Steps in order to reproduce the bug.
[A] First case:
(1) Start LO and create new text document.
(2) Open a file with the extension 'csv' from the menu: File > Open... The open
file dialogue of Windows is displayed. In the status line the filter “All files
(*.*)” is selected.
(3) Select a csv file and click “Open”. The csv file is loaded as text
document. Expected: csv file should be opened as spreadsheet by default even it
is opened from a text document.
[B] Second case:
(1) Start LO and create new text document.
(2) Open a file with the extension 'csv' from the menu: File > Open... The open
file dialogue of Windows is displayed. In the status line the filter “All files
(*.*)” is selected.
(3) Select “Spreadsheets (…;*.csv)” as filter.
(4) Select a csv file and click “Open”... The csv file is loaded as text
document. Expected: csv file should be opened as spreadsheet. In this case even
if the user selects the option spreadsheet the file is opened as text document.
[C] Third case: You like to open a csv file explicitly as text document.
(1) Start LO.
(2) File > Open…
(3) Select filter “Text documents (*.oth; ...)”. csv files are not displayed.
Hence csv files can't be opened now as text documents. Expected: Also csv files
should be displayed.
[D] 4. case:
(1) Start LO and Create new text document.
(2) Open a file with the extension 'csv' from the menu: File > Open... The open
file dialogue of Windows is displayed. In the status line the filter “All files
(*.*)” is selected.
(3) Select “Text CSV (*.csv)” as filter.
(4) Select a csv file and click “Open”... The csv file dialogue is opened and
the file is opened as spreadsheet when you click OK. Here the behaviour is OK.
Additional hint: In some older bug reports files with extension 'tsv'
(tab-separated values, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values)
are mentioned. It seemed to me that there is a special treatment in LibreOffice
similar to csv files. If this is the case, files with these extensions should
be treated completely equal to csv files. This is currently not the case in the
file filters of the file open dialogue, files with the extension tsv are not
mentioned there.
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