[ale] Stupid question

[Greg Freemyer]

On Dec 12, 2007 12:10 PM, James P. Kinney III
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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.

Don't have that second filter, so Novell must have removed it for some
strange reason.

Greg
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