Hi :) Where do you get the tab delimited file from? Does it offer a Csv (comma separated values) option as well? If so then Csv is the more normal method of transferring data.
Proprietary systems do try to throw a curved ball into the mix to force people to go over to their systems for everything but Calc devs are probably able to adapt fairly easily to this particular challenge. It might help to find a bug-report or write one http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Good luck and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Andrew Foss <shrisou...@yahoo.ca> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 20:35:06 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug I need to open a tab delimited text file in Calc. I have done this many times in Excel where you have to Open the File from inside Excel. However, trying to open it with Calc launches Writer (ugh!!!). It seems the programmers have gone to great lengths to stop one doing what you wants and needs to do. Obviously, if one is inside Calc, any file one tries to open should open inside Calc. That's a no brainer. How can I work around this problem? I tried tyo merge in the file but that also failed. I tried changing the file extension but LO ignored that. I tried caopy/paste into Calc but Calc failed to put each tab delimited field into a separate cell so that failed. Hopeless! Help!!!! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
