[Novalug] dumb question

[Kevin Starkey]

right-click or your text document then choose: Open with>other
application>OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet
then it should be straightforward from there.

On 02/11/2010 07:19 PM, Nino Pereira wrote:
> List,
>
> this one has me stumped:
>
> I want to get an ascii text file  with two columns of numbers
> into two columns of the OpenOffice spread sheet, so I can
> manipulate the numbers. How do I do that?
>
> I tried importing the file into gedit, and then selecting it
> with both 'select all' and with the mouse. But, I can't copy
> this file with 'paste special' as I think I did once before.
> This time, 'paste' and 'paste special' are both greyed out.
>
> Any clues as to how to do this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nino
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