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:
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
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
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
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
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