With the highest confidence that my questions have already been asked and answered, I beg you all, "Nevermind".
kevin johnston wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 06:12 -0600, Kent Tenney wrote:
That's it Jonathan.
Fixed field length is evidently used very rarely, hence not not a lot of effort in supporting it.
Each row of the import file is 884 characters, comprising 82 columns. Bringing it into Calc consists of setting each of the 82 column dividers manually.
Oh I see you want OOo to intuitively to know and understand the divisions when opening your file. I do not see how any program can do that as you must know and understand the table layout from which the fixed fields come. When you open your file in Calc as fixed field you must set the proper boundaries manually each time or get the source database to delimit the fixed fields.
Okay, but...
GRS: I can see that no program would know at first sight where the divisions ought to be. But if I set/define/configure the proper boundaries once, is there any way to save this setup/definition/configuration for the future?
ktenney: Someone mentioned setting column widths in a blank spreadsheet and saving it as a Template, did you try this?
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