Operation Manual

Figure 93: Text Import dialog
• Separator Options – specifies whether your data uses separators or fixed widths as
delimiters.
– Fixed width – separates fixed-width data (equal number of characters) into columns.
Click on the ruler in the preview window to set the width.
– Separated by – select the separator used in your data to delimit the data into columns.
When you select Other, you specify the character used to separate data into columns.
This custom separator must also be contained in your data.
– Merge delimiters – combines consecutive delimiters and removes blank data fields.
– Text delimiter – select a character to delimit text data.
• Other options
– Quoted fields as text – when this option is enabled, fields or cells whose values are
quoted in their entirety (the first and last characters of the value equal the text delimiter)
are imported as text.
– Detect special numbers – when this option is enabled, Calc will automatically detect all
number formats, including special number formats such as dates, time, and scientific
notation. The selected language also influences how such special numbers are
detected, since different languages and regions many have different conventions for
such special numbers.
When this option is disabled, Calc will detect and convert only decimal numbers. The
rest, including numbers formatted in scientific notation, will be imported as text. A
decimal number string can have digits 0-9, thousands separators, and a decimal
separator. Thousands separators and decimal separators may vary with the selected
language and region.
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