I am not certain I understand the question. Are you asking whether or
not to open the file using the Text CSV filetype or whether or not you
should change the extensionon? Quite frankly, I think that if you use
the correct  file type, it shouldn't matter but try both and let us
know.

 On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:50 -0500, Robert Volke wrote:
> Thank you for the swift response and sorry for my slow one.  I see that
> there is a fixed file option, but I still have a problem.  OpenOffice
> will only open delimited files saved as .csv right?  If  that is true,
> how do I get it so that it can open files delimited by fixed width? 
> Thank you,
> 
> Robert Volke
> 
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/05/05 11:46 AM >>>
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:35 -0500, Robert Volke wrote:
> > I was wondering if in OpenOffice you can open a file delimited by
> fixed
> > length.  Has anyone experimented with this?  In the past I have
> renamed
> > tab delimited files to have the .csv extension so OpenOffice Calc
> can
> > open them, and that seems to work for the most part.  However the
> > OpenOffice wizard does not have the option to split columns by fixed
> > length upon import.  I'm lost at the moment and any help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Yes it works fine. Just use the fixed file option and set your
> columns.
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