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Re: [LUG] libre office macros/dialogs

 

On 23/04/2020 15:25, Tom via list wrote:
> A freind of mine is an archaeologist and pointed me to a lot of free
> data from a long term excavation and it comes in the form of CSV files
> and some pdf docs that describe the structure of the real DB and I
> thought I might just have a play with them in LibreOffice Base. OK so
> you cant read a CSV file in to a table, so I think I'll write macro to
> do it and use a dialog to read in the file location, extract the column
> titles from the first line and do some scanning to ascertain the column
> type etc etc.
> 
> OK so I cant find a filefinder dialog to get me to the file and all the
> online help points nowhere! I'm not sure anyone else has ever used Base
> in anger as I can find no  useful documentation on the LO site. Have any
> of you got any links to LibreOffice stuff that might help me? I'm on LTS
> Xubuntu 18.03 and Libre Office Version: 6.0.7.3. I have a mind to keep
> kicking this until I can do stuff on Base I could do in access 35 years
> ago!
> 
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
> 

Never used Base in anger, or otherwise.

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Eion MacDonald

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