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***********<BR><BR>On 16/06/2006 at 9:33 AM Russell Steicke wrote:</FONT>
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6/16/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Mark J Gaynor</B> <<A
href="mailto:mark@mjg.id.au">mark@mjg.id.au</A>> wrote:
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I wanted to import some CSV text data into a spreadsheet with
OOo,<BR>>> a simple task you may think. Well,I could not find anything
that<BR>>> would allow me to do this simple
task.<BR>><BR>>File->Open, choose Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt) from the
File type dropdown <BR>>box. Did that not work?<BR><BR>That is fine for
opening a spreadsheet, I wanted to import the data into<BR>an existing
document. MERGE may be a better term.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>Open spreadsheet.<BR>Open csv file. <BR>Select area in csv.<BR>Copy
and paste into spreadsheet. <BR><BR>Does that work for you? Or have you
made up your mind that this can't be done?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>It does, but that is not the point. It is a lot of unnecessary messing
round when another program can do the same job more efficiently.</DIV>
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<DIV>My argument is why should I have to open another spreadsheet just to add
some basic data to what I already have. OOo is not that flexible is it. It is
called usability. As good as the app may be it fails on that point. You are
saying that to import basic data I have to make the process more complex than it
needs to be. The concept of any app is to make the process as simple as possible
for the operator, unless I have missed something. Adding more layers to perform
any task fails that concept. Therefore OOo fails me in that task. The other
program has more usability and that is the basis of the argument.</DIV>
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<DIV>Open source developers fail to see things from the user point of view and
only see it from a programming perspective.</DIV>
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<DIV>Why does OOo not import basic CSV data?</DIV>
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<DIV>Mark</DIV>
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