Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT]

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39816
interpreted = N
texte = Open the db in Excel, do all your manipulations. Don't worry about saving and exporting, just select the entire sheet, copy and then paste it into BBEdit or the like. It won't have smartquotes and your quotes for inches will be intact. Most importantly, the tabs will be there also.GK ----- Original Message ----- From: Donovan Brooke To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:37 PM Subject: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] > Questions beget more questions. :-) > > What spreadsheet apps are people using out there on the Mac side of things.?? > Excell seems to do alright however I don't like a couple things about it. One, > it is a Microsoft product (reveiling my opinions). Two, when it saves as a tab-deliminated > text file it puts quotes around most of the fields and I haven't figured out how to edit that. > > Any other options out there??? Appleworks? > thanks. > D > > -- Donovan D. Brooke > Systems Administrator/ > Assc. Art Director > Epsen Hillmer Graphics > > I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have > asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Gary Krockover 2001)
  2. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  3. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Gary Krockover 2001)
  4. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2001)
  5. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Alex McCombie 2001)
  6. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  7. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Alain Russell 2001)
  8. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Andrew Simpson 2001)
  9. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  10. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Glenn Busbin 2001)
  11. Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Andrew Simpson 2001)
  12. Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] (Donovan Brooke 2001)
Open the db in Excel, do all your manipulations. Don't worry about saving and exporting, just select the entire sheet, copy and then paste it into BBEdit or the like. It won't have smartquotes and your quotes for inches will be intact. Most importantly, the tabs will be there also.GK ----- Original Message ----- From: Donovan Brooke To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:37 PM Subject: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT] > Questions beget more questions. :-) > > What spreadsheet apps are people using out there on the Mac side of things.?? > Excell seems to do alright however I don't like a couple things about it. One, > it is a Microsoft product (reveiling my opinions). Two, when it saves as a tab-deliminated > text file it puts quotes around most of the fields and I haven't figured out how to edit that. > > Any other options out there??? Appleworks? > thanks. > D > > -- Donovan D. Brooke > Systems Administrator/ > Assc. Art Director > Epsen Hillmer Graphics > > I know I'm making progress when I look at the questions I have > asked in the past and think to myself... how stupid was that > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Gary Krockover

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