https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120944
Bug ID: 120944
Summary: REGRESSION: Can not open .txt files nor tabbed txt
files in Calc
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.1.0.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 146046
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=146046&action=edit
When Selecting Calc in "Open with" Dialog in W10, txt files open in Writer. If
I predefine Calc as program to open txt files, they open in Writer
Before 6.1 rolled around I frequently used Calc to open tabulated txt files to
manipulate and convert them into either .ods files or even .xlxs files. The
options in Calc on how to split txt files.
Starting with 6.1 even if I expressly try to define Calc to open .txt files as
the predefined program, .txt files will ALWAYS open in Writer.
This is extremely frustrating since I use several programs in my workflow
(bioinformatics) that output tabulated .txt files (not csv, not .tab) and
starting with 6.1 I can't open them on my preferred tool to sort the tabulated
files, which is Calc.
Arguably the only thing in which Calc shines over Excel is in the options it
gives on how to partition a .txt file when opening it. Now that has been taken
away because .txt files are forcibly opened on Writer every freaking time even
when I expressly try to force open them with Calc.
There is a workaround, which is to have Calc opened and drop the .txt file on
an open instance of Calc, but a new user won't know about this and it breaks
with Calc's behaviour from pre-6.1.
Also, Writer should NEVER be pre-defined as the default module to open .txt
files in Libre Office. Document formats and text formats ARE DIFFERENT THINGS.
The later are used to save scripts, or outputs from software like R or many
bioinformatics tools and even code. Why would I want to open it on a document
editor? Why is this pre-defined by LibreOffice? Why was previous behaviour
broken? Why break something that was working great beforehand???
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