Brilliant!  Thanks a million!  I knew there had to be a way to setup a
formula, but wasn't sure where to begin on this one.  I had originally hoped
Calc would let me search and replace on empty cells.  Oh well.  Thanks
again.

Cheers,
Don

On 5/2/07, Anthony Chilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Don,
The cheap and dirty way would be to enter this into cell a1 on another
sheet:
=IF(Sheet1.A1<>"";Sheet1.A1;"/N")
This assumes that the sheet with your data is named 'Sheet1'. Substitute
the sheet name if it's not. Fill across all fifty-two columns and then
down all 990 rows. Select all, copy, then paste special and check all
the options except for formulas. Save the second sheet as a tab file.
tc

Don Parris wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a large-ish Calc sheet (using 2.2.0) with empty cells
interspersed
> throughout 52 columns and 990 rows.  I will save the sheet as a
> tab-separated values text file, and run it through PostgreSQL's COPY
> command.  I would like to insert a "\N" (database NULL) into the empty
> cells, if possible.  Is there a quick-and-easy way to do this?  If the
> cells
> occupied a single row or column, the answer would be pretty obvious.  If
> there is some documentation explaining how this can be done, just point
me
> to that.
>
> It may be easier to tell PostgreSQL how to interpret the blank fields,
and
> that's fine, too.
>
> Thanks,
> Don

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