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On 2012-07-09T15:22:36+00:00 Benjamin-lichtner wrote:

Problem description:

After reading how to export data from Base
(http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Importing_and_Exporting_Data_in_Base),
I attempted to follow the steps to export a csv. I copied the data from
a table in my database and pasted it into a new spreadsheet, but the
header row was completely alphabetized (and thus misaligned), and each
header name occupied more than a single column.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Import an mdb or accdb file into Base
2. Open a table
3. Copy the table
4. Open a new spreadsheet
5. Paste into the spreadsheet

Current behavior:
Elements of the header row are alphabetized and occupy more than one column. 
Thus they are not properly aligned with each column of data.

Expected behavior:
Each element of the header row is properly aligned with the corresponding data 
column.

Platform (if different from the browser):
Windows 7

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On 2012-07-13T14:26:11+00:00 Nv4y-robert wrote:

I can't reproduce it. Have no mdb- or accdb-file. Could you please
declare it with an attachment (*.odb-file and screenshot of *.odt-file)?

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On 2012-07-14T00:05:27+00:00 Benjamin-lichtner wrote:

Sure. Here's a link to a dropbox folder containing an .odb file, the .accdb
file to which it is linked, and the .ods file into which I pasted one of
the tables.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/psavwxluly5awpj/Wh_2egYE76

--Benny

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On 2012-07-14T06:58:31+00:00 Nv4y-robert wrote:

The *.odb-file is linked to a database outside the file. I couldn't see any 
table. I could not open an accdb-file - have no Access here and no Windows.
I can not see which sorting the headers of the table had, before they are 
imported.
When I take a table from a *.odb-file and paste it to a *.odt-file, the sorting 
is correct. 
You didn't import the Access-file in *.odb. How do you connect the *.odb-file 
to the accdb-file?
The header of this bug is misleading. You havn't a Base-table. You have only a 
look on a table of another database. When you write about Base-table, we would 
search for the bug only in a *.odb-file, not a linked file to another database. 
The database of the *.odb-file is HSQLDB.
The problem must be the connection between the accdb-file and LO. There is no 
possibility to connect to an accdb-file with a standard-LO-installation.

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On 2012-07-14T07:53:38+00:00 Benjamin-lichtner wrote:

Hi. To create the .odb file that I sent you, all I did was create a new
Base file, select connect to an existing database, select Microsoft 2007,
and select the .accdb file. However, I did need to boot into Windows--the
connection is not possible on OS X. Is there a way to save a new .odb file
after connecting it to another database? Or any other way to make the new
.odb file independent of the .accdb file? I apologize for the misleading
title. I am not familiar with databases.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:58 AM, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51918
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> --- Comment #3 from [email protected] 2012-07-14 06:58:31 UTC ---
> The *.odb-file is linked to a database outside the file. I couldn't see any
> table. I could not open an accdb-file - have no Access here and no Windows.
> I can not see which sorting the headers of the table had, before they are
> imported.
> When I take a table from a *.odb-file and paste it to a *.odt-file, the
> sorting
> is correct.
> You didn't import the Access-file in *.odb. How do you connect the
> *.odb-file
> to the accdb-file?
> The header of this bug is misleading. You havn't a Base-table. You have
> only a
> look on a table of another database. When you write about Base-table, we
> would
> search for the bug only in a *.odb-file, not a linked file to another
> database.
> The database of the *.odb-file is HSQLDB.
> The problem must be the connection between the accdb-file and LO. There is
> no
> possibility to connect to an accdb-file with a standard-LO-installation.
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On 2012-07-14T09:06:59+00:00 Nv4y-robert wrote:

Could be the same way I can import the thunderbird-adressbook, when I want to 
edit the files:
Open the database with the connection to the *.accdb-file. Create another new 
database. Click with the right button of the mouse on the table of the old 
database: copy. Click with the right button on the new database in the folder 
tables: paste. You are asked something about the types of the fiels. You can 
also sort the fields. Normally the fields are sorted as in the table of the old 
database. Try the automatic way. Could be you are asked for a primary-key. 
There was a key in the *.accdb-file. When you will use the new database not 
only for testing you must have a primary-key. If you don't know what it is you 
could also accept, that base creates a new key.
The table would be created by this wizard. Are the fields sorted as they are 
sorted in the table of the old database?
Now you could import the content in different ways to calc. They must be sorted 
like they are sorted in the new created database.
After this we will see, which is the right title of this bug and we could say, 
this is a bug for Windows, not for Linux or Mac (because there is no easy 
possibility to connect to *.accdb-files).

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On 2012-07-29T16:39:53+00:00 Tony Pursell wrote:

I have seen a similar problem copying from Base to Calc.

The table in Base contains 126 columns. When copied and pasted into a
Calc spreadsheet, the first 35 data items span 3 columns each, taking up
the first 105 spreadsheet columns from A to DA. Then from columns DB to
DU there are a further 10 data items spanning 2 columns each. The other
81 data items are correctly allocated 1 column each, taking columns DV
to GX.

If correctly allocated the 126 data items take up columns A to DV.

This problem seems to relate to the number of columns copied and pasted.
A table with only a few columns has data items correctly allocated 1
column each.

There is also other mis-formatting with strikethrough and underline
formatting being applied to the data items.  This can be corrected using
Format > Cells and setting '(Without)' for Strikethrough and Underlining
on the Font Effects in place of the blank entries found. This mis-
formatting occurs with any size table.

I am using LO version 3.5.4.2 in Ubuntu 12.04LTS

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On 2012-08-03T22:11:01+00:00 Tony Pursell wrote:

@benjamin_lichtner

Rather than connecting a Base (odb) file to an Access database, can you
export the table to CSV (you used to be able to do do this in the days
when I worked with Access mdb files) then copy that into a table in an
odb file, then try copying back to Calc?

If this still causes the problem that you observe, then it is not the
connection to the Access database that is the problem, but the copy from
Base to Calc (as I have observed.  You will then have a the odb file
that you can attach here as a test case.

Tony

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