Re: FN-FORUM: CSV Baffler!

date posted 8th March 2006 10:56

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Bianca Best wrote:

> My product spreadsheet is built in excel. I open this document in
> StarOffice8 to then resave as a .csv file.

Doesn't Excel let you export a csv file?

Doesn't it let you export as a text file with a customised separator?

I can do that in Gnumeric.

Why can't your ecommerce app accept CSV as an import format?

> I edit filter settings to
> replace ',' with '|'. This .csv file should then contain all my date broken
> into fields by '|'. Instead, it's splitting it at every single comma found
> within any text, meaning it's become an endless strem of meaningless
> gobbledeygook!!

Is a filter the same as an export?

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