[ale] Stupid question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:28 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 9:33 PM, James P. Kinney III
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:57 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > James,
> > >
> > > I can get that to work iff I have an appropriate extension.
> >
> > It works easy with a .csv extension.
> >
> > I just made it work with a .txt file I renamed to have no filename
> > extension. I selected "File->open" from an open blank OOo document. Then
> > I highlighted the file (once I found it) and then selected the file type
> > as "Text CSV" and then I get a dialog box to choose the field
> > delimiters.
> 
> Not here.  OO 2.3.0 from Novell.

I have 2.3.0. Not from Novell but the RedHat compiled version for
Fedora.
> 
> In the open dialog, I have my entire desktop available for selection.
> 
> I click on the file "part1" without an extension and my "location"
> field is populated with "part1"
> 
> Then on the "filter" pulldown, I select Text CSV.  My "Location" field
> gets cleared by the filtering action.

GONG! Wrong selector. The file filter is not the one you want. Look to
the left under the "places" section for a triangle with "File Type" and
use that to force OOo to open the chosen file as a particular type. That
is what forces the filtering on field delimiter dialog box.

If you don't have the second filter choice I've listed, then Novell
screwed up the build. I have that same capability on the Mac version
from OpenOffice.org directly as well as the 2.3 version for winders.
> 
> OTOH, if I select "part1.csv", then set the filter, it works.  Or it
> works without the filter, since apparently the extension csv invokes
> the CSV processing logic.
> 
> OTOOH, if I select "part1.txt", then it only works if I have the
> filter set to Text CSV, since by default the txt extension invokes the
> TEXT processing logic.
> 
> Greg
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