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May. 7th, 2015 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naathWeirdest Bug -
Using Open Office, open a new spreadsheet. In cell A1 type 'ID', in cell B1 type 'Pre' (no quotes). Save as a .csv using ; as a separator. Now open the resulting .csv file using Open Office. If you are *me* then this just straight-up doesn't work - you get a blank .csv file. Loads of *other* text works; It seems to be only if I have a word starting with P in B1 and NOT in A1. Also it works if I use , as a separator (but the bloody file is full of ,s maybe I need to trust the quoting more)?
ALSO annoyingly if a cell contents is '.' it reads (in OO) as '0' (it's not, if I read the text file it has '.'). Does not happen if cell contents is '.,.' or other '.' containing strings.
Using Open Office, open a new spreadsheet. In cell A1 type 'ID', in cell B1 type 'Pre' (no quotes). Save as a .csv using ; as a separator. Now open the resulting .csv file using Open Office. If you are *me* then this just straight-up doesn't work - you get a blank .csv file. Loads of *other* text works; It seems to be only if I have a word starting with P in B1 and NOT in A1. Also it works if I use , as a separator (but the bloody file is full of ,s maybe I need to trust the quoting more)?
ALSO annoyingly if a cell contents is '.' it reads (in OO) as '0' (it's not, if I read the text file it has '.'). Does not happen if cell contents is '.,.' or other '.' containing strings.
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Date: 2015-05-10 01:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-05-10 01:23 pm (UTC)Yours looks like Debian wheezy's LibreOffice. wheezy-backports has 4.3.3; so does jessie. If you plan to upgrade to jessie soon, that might fix it; if not installing the version from wheezy-backports might do the job.