tabling in OOo

[der.hans]

Am 29. Aug, 2005 schwätzte Craig White so:

> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:38 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 29. Aug, 2005 schwÀtzte Craig White so:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:27 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > > > moin, moin,
> > > >
> > > > I have some text files with delimited fields. I would like to use those
> > > > fields to populate tables in OOo writer. Mostly just the headers, but in a
> > > > couple of cases I also want to use the fields to populate the table data
> > > > as well.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know of a way to paste them into OOo and build a table around them
> > > > or how to paste them into a pre-made table?
> > > >
> > > > I mean all in one swoop because the freakin' ctrl-c ctrl-v this is
> > > > annoyingly stupid, especially since it's utterly right handed when
> > > > combined with a mouse :(.
> > > ----
> > > I normally import this stuff into a spreadsheet first - old habits die
> > > hard. Then I copy chunks and paste into word processor.
> >
> > You know, I thought I knew how to do that and was just trying to avoid
> > importing to import, but I can't even get importing to oocalc first to
> > work.
> ---
> Start OpenOffice.org.
> File Menu -> Open -> choose delimited.csv (or other delimited file) ->
> you should stop at an open delimited file wizard that allows you to pick
> the delimiter to separate into columns

Ooops, sorry. I wasn't very clear on that. I can get it into oocalc just
fine. Thanks for being thorough in the face of my bad explanation.

> ---
> > oowriter keeps wanting to paste the oocalc fields as a single object :(.
> ---
> Edit Menu -> Paste Special -> formatted or unformatted text

It still either just pastes it as plain text. Aha! If I select the test
and choose Insert->Table I get a table. Easy as glassblowing with
chopsticks :).

> ---
> >
> > vi has always been a sufficient word processor for me, but unfortunately
> > it doesn't work for the end customers for this doc...
> ---
> further evidence that long term usage of vi is hazardous to one's health
> and productivity. Emacs can save you  ;-)

Is there an OOo mode for Emacs yet? :)

ciao,

der.hans
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