noop-3 wrote:
>
> On 04/02/2007 06:46 PM, TerryJ wrote:
>>
>>
>> noop-3 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/02/2007 10:30 AM, Geoffrey Coon wrote:
>>>> I am using the latest version downloaded last week. I think it is 2.1
>>>> but I see that there is a 2.2 out now. I have .tab files (data from
>>>> wholesalers) that I can open and convert to excel files but was not
>>>> successful in getting open office calc to open them at all from the
>>>> .tab
>>>> files. Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have excel at my office computer but not at home. I had to email the
>>>> .tab files to myself at the office, convert them to excel files, and
>>>> email them back to my home computer address. Open office calc then
>>>> opened the excel files.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Assuming that you mean a "tab-delimited" file, see:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ:Calc
>>> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ:Calc#How_do_I_open_a_tab-delimited_file_in_OpenOffice.org_Spreadsheet.3F_What_if_I_have_a_different_type_of_delimiter.3F>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> An extremely tiresome procedure for anyone whose data comes in the form
>> of
>> tab delimited files. See:
>> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23078
>
> Ah. I think I see what you are saying. I just tested and simply renaming
> a tab-delimited file to .csv, opening in Calc, and telling Calc to use
> tabs works just fine.
>
>
I think people who need to open a lot of these files reasonably expect to be
able to open them without changing file extensions or going through the File
>Open >Select file >Select file type process. In any case, those are the
two methods generally available.
I have, IIRC, seen some reference to Windows users being able successfully
to associate the extension .tsv with Calc in recent versions of OOo. OOo
has insisted on using Writer (why that should be the default, I don't know)
regardless of any associations which I set. There are also macros available
on the forum to force OOo to open a text delimited file in Calc regardless
of the extension.
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