Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Marc Santhoff: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 18:18 +0200 schrieb Marc Santhoff: > > Am Dienstag, den 29.04.2008, 10:19 -0500 schrieb Tamblyne: > > > > > When I view data sources in my spreadsheet, they come up fine, and I can > > > do, so far, anything I want with them *except* get the data into the > > > spreadsheet. > > > > > > When I try to drag 'n' drop a field into the spreadsheet, the "Text > > > Import" dialog opens, but then it locks up and I have to kill the OOo > > > from > > > the task manager. > > > > Playing around with 2.3.0 yesterday I found out: > > > > If you have some record marked by selection in the db browser > > (F4-Window), hitting the "data to fields" button does what you expect > > (me thinks): the records are put in the spreadsheet one cell per field > > each. > > It actually is the "data to text"-button (I hope the name is correct, it > is in german "Daten in Text"). > > > I didn't know about this change ... > > And it works the same using 2.4 on Windows 98SE (a zombie, I know ;).
The difference is: If the mouse click for grabbing the data before dragging into a calc sheet happens on the blue highlighted data area, the wrong or at least unexpected behaviour occurs. If the grabbing occurs on the gutter, the grey colored border showing the little arrow head for the record cursor, the data is split up into fields record wise and one row per record. HTH, Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
