Hi, many thanks to Dan for his quick answer. It works great. Thanks again. Bye. Pat.
> Message du 24/02/07 01:22 > De : "Dan Lewis" > A : [email protected] > Copie à : "Patrick RAFFIN" > Objet : Re: [users] Question > > 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 > > >
