[KLUG Members] Re: Calling all Linux novices: -- Mega-ignorance on MS Office!

[Vernon]

Dennis wrote:

>Mike Williams wrote:
>
>>The most common application of
>>a spreadsheet I've seen is taking a string of data, sometimes just text,
>>and splitting it up into cells so you can work with it.
>>    
>>
>In OOo have you tried opening your text or csv files using the "File
>type" selection in the Open dialog? Once the "File type:" selection box
>is changed to "Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt)" you are allowed various
>separators and delimiters in the following dialog.
>

While this may work ... his point still stands that oocalc is not yet as 
good as Excel wrt this feature.
To say that Excel is the best is way over the line though.

Vernon Singleton
vsingleton@cfl.rr.com