On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:31 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:26 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: > > I've got a tab delimited text file (gedit) that I want to import to Calc > > and have the tab-delimited fields assigned to different cells in each > > row. I have been over and over the menus and the help and can't find how > > to do it. It seems to me I've done with with Excel by just copying and > > pasting the file, but in OO.o that just dumps each row into one cell. Am > > I missing some instructions somewhere? > > > gedit was inserting spaces rather than tabs....
> I would guess that in the open dialogue you have checked a delimiter > option other than Tab or you have selected fixed width as the option. > Try selecting just the Tab delimiter. I don't see any such options. (I don't need them--once I got real tabs in my file, Calc did what I expected.) Is there supposed to be some place to select a delimited in the Calc Open dialog? EB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
