Re: Spreadsheet App pref. [OT]
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2001
It keeps the original formatting.
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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/
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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/
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