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>I'm currently using StarOffice 5.1 (for Linux).
>Does StarCalc have an import manager that would enable
>the users to specify the type of delimeter used in
>a text file (e.g. white space,comman,semi-colon,custom etc.)?
>This would be a VERY nice feature for those who use
>spreadsheets for scientific purpose (ie. various forms
>of ASCII data need to be imported into a spreadsheet).
>I use StarOffice under linux (RH6.0). Since I could not
>figure out how to do this under StartOffice (I need to
>import white space delimited data - currently it simply
>imports it as a text document), I have to reboot in
>Win98 (yuk!!), import it into $excel$ and then use
>staroffice to read the excel file. This is clearly not
>an efficient way to do things.
>Why don't I stick to Excel (in win98 - yuk!)? Well...
>all of my scientific software are designed for Linux.
>Has anyone attempted to do this under StartOffice? Is
>there such feature? Hopefully the next version would
>have this.

>Cheers,
>Thas

> >Hello,

> >I'm currently using StarOffice 5.1 (for Linux).
> >Does StarCalc have an import manager that would enable
> >the users to specify the type of delimeter used in
> >a text file (e.g. white space,comman,semi-colon,custom etc.)?
> >This would be a VERY nice feature for those who use
> >spreadsheets for scientific purpose (ie. various forms
> >of ASCII data need to be imported into a spreadsheet).
> >I use StarOffice under linux (RH6.0). Since I could not
> >figure out how to do this under StartOffice (I need to
> >import white space delimited data - currently it simply
> >imports it as a text document), I have to reboot in
> >Win98 (yuk!!), import it into $excel$ and then use
> >staroffice to read the excel file. This is clearly not
> >an efficient way to do things.
> >Why don't I stick to Excel (in win98 - yuk!)? Well...
> >all of my scientific software are designed for Linux.
> >Has anyone attempted to do this under StartOffice? Is
> >there such feature? Hopefully the next version would
> >have this.

> >Cheers,
> >Thas

> I too was sorely disappointed to find that StarOffice could
> not import my comma-delimited ASCII database files. And in my
> case the database exceeded the 32000 record capacity of the
> dinky spreadsheet program supplied as part of Microsoft Works.

> Anyone with a solution, kindly post it to this newsgroup
> for all to see.

>> >Hello,

>> >I'm currently using StarOffice 5.1 (for Linux).
>> >Does StarCalc have an import manager that would enable
>> >the users to specify the type of delimeter used in
>> >a text file (e.g. white space,comman,semi-colon,custom etc.)?
>> >This would be a VERY nice feature for those who use
>> >spreadsheets for scientific purpose (ie. various forms
>> >of ASCII data need to be imported into a spreadsheet).
>> >I use StarOffice under linux (RH6.0). Since I could not
>> >figure out how to do this under StartOffice (I need to
>> >import white space delimited data - currently it simply
>> >imports it as a text document), I have to reboot in
>> >Win98 (yuk!!), import it into $excel$ and then use
>> >staroffice to read the excel file. This is clearly not
>> >an efficient way to do things.
>> >Why don't I stick to Excel (in win98 - yuk!)? Well...
>> >all of my scientific software are designed for Linux.
>> >Has anyone attempted to do this under StartOffice? Is
>> >there such feature? Hopefully the next version would
>> >have this.

>> >Cheers,
>> >Thas

>> I too was sorely disappointed to find that StarOffice could
>> not import my comma-delimited ASCII database files. And in my
>> case the database exceeded the 32000 record capacity of the
>> dinky spreadsheet program supplied as part of Microsoft Works.

>> Anyone with a solution, kindly post it to this newsgroup
>> for all to see.

>From the SO desktop, click on File|Open, and then select file type of
>Text/StarCalc; this brings up a dialog box where you can tell SO what
>the column separator is.