Re: [libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc (summary)

2013-04-12 Thread Herbert Fruchtl
Folks, Thanks to everybody who replied. I still don't understand all of the problem, but I have found a solution that works for me. First in more detail what I'm doing and trying to do: In a Linux xterm, I get lines containing a special marker out of a file and onto the screen:

Re: [libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc

2013-04-11 Thread mcmurchy1917-libreoffice
Replace does work for these. Found this on the web many moons ago. How to convert numeric text to number by re-entering everything in one step. Select the cells in question. Apply any number format other than @ (text) menu:FindReplace... [More Options...] [X] Current Selection [X] Regular

[libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc

2013-04-10 Thread Herbert Fruchtl
This question seems to have been discussed before, but none of the replies I understand work for me. Here it goes: If I copy a column-based piece of text, containing numbers in some columns, into LibreOffie Calc and apply the (hopefully) correct text-to-column delimiters, all columns

Re: [libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc

2013-04-10 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2013-04-11 11:36, Herbert Fruchtl wrote: This question seems to have been discussed before, but none of the replies I understand work for me. Here it goes: If I copy a column-based piece of text, containing numbers in some columns, into LibreOffie Calc and apply the (hopefully) correct

Re: [libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc

2013-04-10 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/10/2013 07:36 PM, Herbert Fruchtl wrote: This question seems to have been discussed before, but none of the replies I understand work for me. Here it goes: If I copy a column-based piece of text, containing numbers in some columns, into LibreOffie Calc and apply the (hopefully) correct

Re: [libreoffice-users] pasting numbers into Calc

2013-04-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 23:36 10/04/2013 +, Herbert Fruchtl wrote: This question seems to have been discussed before, but none of the replies I understand work for me. So what have you tried, in fact? If I copy a column-based piece of text, containing numbers in some columns, into LibreOffie Calc and apply