Peter Gordon wrote:
I want to start OpenOffice Calc from an external program, and persuade
it to read a csv tab delimited file, specifying tab as the delimiter,
and not having commas or quotes as delimiters.
Is this possible and how would I go about doing it?
Thanks for any help.
Peter
Unfortunately, many people have discovered this limitation in Calc.
soffice's file loader doesn't detect delimited text files (at all?) and
therefor always hands over control to Writer (even if you pass it the
-calc parameter which should have been good enough to persuade it). On
windows you must create a file association of .cvs for calc (the
installer doesn't give you this option which would have been nice).
However, once association is done, a tab delimited .csv file will open
into Calc after choosing the right delimiter in the parse dialog.
Again, the parse dialog doesn't correctly detect the right delimiters of
the file you're loading. So, yes, automation isn't quite at the level
of Excel and Quatro Pro in this regard.
-eric wood
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