On Friday February 23 2007 1:03 pm, Patrick RAFFIN wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm French and will try to be clear. I'm using openoffice and
> glad about it. I have one problem. I use a genealogy data base
> software (Nimegue 2). I can export data to a xxx.txt file and then
> with Excel I can have a real data base file under excel. The
> procedure is:
> - 1 open Excel, "all types of files"
> - 2 click on "xxxx.txt"
> - 3 click in "délimité" (sorry in French) then "follow"
> - 4 click on separator "point virgule (;) and end
> - 5 register thenew excel file.
>
> I can't do the same with openoffice calc.Please tell me if there is
> a way to register such a file under openoffice calc or not. If yes,
> tell me how. Thank you.
Try this. Change the name of the file from xxxx.txt to xxxx.csv.
Open OpenOffice.org and open xxxx.csv within OOo. It should start
Calc and ask you similar questions that Excel did.
Dan
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