Re: 2 questions about importing

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 12:36, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi there,

> 1. i notice the import happens in a new instance of gnumeric.  that's
> not a big problem since i can just cut and past the entire column into
> the first instance of gnumeric, but it would be more convenient for the
> import to happen in the first instance -- the one i'm working in.

not yet but someone talked a few weeks ago about implementing this.

> 2. importing numbers like this seems to destroy borders.  any way of
> making this a preference?  or perhaps changing this behavior?  when
> importing stuff, we're usually importing into something already
> formatted into tables, and it would be nice for the borders to stick
> around so i don't have to redo them.

In the cut and paste, use "paste special" -> "as value". it will paste
only your numbers and not obliterate the formating.

cheers,
adrian