[Novalug] dumb question

[Kevin Starkey]

Honestly I don't know if this will work from a text window (doubt it). 
Why don't you give it a try and report back to us.

On 02/11/2010 09:12 PM, Nino Pereira wrote:
> Kevin Starkey wrote:
>> right-click or your text document then choose: Open with>other
>> application>OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet
>> then it should be straightforward from there.
>
> this is a good one if you use an X-window. Normally I'm in a text window.
> Can you do the same thing in text? If I do
> ooffice datafile
>
> it doesn't try to open it in a spreadsheet, but as a normal text file.
>
> Nino
>
>>>
>>> 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?
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