[ale] Stupid question

[Greg Freemyer]

On Dec 11, 2007 9:33 PM, James P. Kinney III
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:57 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > I can get that to work iff I have an appropriate extension.
>
> It works easy with a .csv extension.
>
> I just made it work with a .txt file I renamed to have no filename
> extension. I selected "File->open" from an open blank OOo document. Then
> I highlighted the file (once I found it) and then selected the file type
> as "Text CSV" and then I get a dialog box to choose the field
> delimiters.

Not here.  OO 2.3.0 from Novell.

In the open dialog, I have my entire desktop available for selection.

I click on the file "part1" without an extension and my "location"
field is populated with "part1"

Then on the "filter" pulldown, I select Text CSV.  My "Location" field
gets cleared by the filtering action.

OTOH, if I select "part1.csv", then set the filter, it works.  Or it
works without the filter, since apparently the extension csv invokes
the CSV processing logic.

OTOOH, if I select "part1.txt", then it only works if I have the
filter set to Text CSV, since by default the txt extension invokes the
TEXT processing logic.

Greg
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