[rt-users] 3.8.7 "Spreadsheet" is broken

[Kenneth Crocker]

Jeff, et all,

I think it has been doing this for years. I just remember to change the Data
Type to ".xls" and all is well.

Kenn
LBNL

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kevin Falcone <falcone at bestpractical.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:05:25PM -0700, Tom Lahti wrote:
> > > Using OO 3.2
> > >    (*) Separated by
> > >
> > >        [x] Tab         [ ] Comma
> > >        [ ] Semicolon   [ ] Space
> > >
> > > = broken :(
> > >
> > > I'll ask the original problem finder what app she was using.
> >
> > Does the data contain embedded tabs?  If so, tab-delimited ain't gonna
> work.
> >
> > Is she sure she did TAB separated?  Doing comma or space separated would
> jumble the data for sure.
> >
> > Also look out for column widths.  The spreadsheet can -look- like the
> data is jumbled when in fact it isn't if the column widths aren't uniform,
> which in some programs they often aren't immediately upon an import like
> that.  They -look- jumbled to me in OO as well, but then I go through and
> adjust column widths and its peachy.
>
> Without a sample of what is wrong, or a better description of the bug,
> I have to assume that the original reporter either wants to come up to
> 3.8.8 or apply 1f4fa271b9e9c78104257f729f3046f9c30694e0 which fixes a
> bug where the column headers and column bodies might not be in sync.
>
> -kevin
>
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