On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:03 +1200, MR wrote: > Hi All, > Running: > OOo 1.1.2 > Evo 2.0.4 > fc3 > > I have a spread sheet of addresses (tab deliminated) I want to load into > the evo/ooo address database. Evo provides for import of only ldif or > vcf files; when I open the database in OOo it seems to be locked for > editing. OOo seemed to offer the best way to manipulate/import these > addresses, but it seems locked and wont edit. Any ideas? vcf is a relatively simple text-based format, so at worst, it wouldn't be hard to code something up that reads your tab delimited file and converts it to vcf (does your version of OOo have a scripting language?) I'm not volunteering though ;-) > > Also, under menu "Tools -> Data Sources... -> Addresses -> [Data source > URL] ... -> Data Source" there are options to select different address > book types. I use Mozilla Thunderbird so it would be good to access > this from OOo, but changing between the sources to Mozilla seems to have > no effect on the Tables available under the Addresses database. Is > there any explanation/howto about how this is meant to work (or not?) > anywhere? (The OOo help is meaningless...) > > Thanks, > Morgan. >
