TableTools spreadsheet is empty, except first row has some cyrillic characters?

TableTools spreadsheet is empty, except first row has some cyrillic characters?

mgmg Posts: 47Questions: 0Answers: 0
edited February 2011 in TableTools
Hello,

I'm able to use the TableTools plug-in, and both the CSV and Excel buttons are
generating a CSV spreadsheet. (Why doesn't the Excel button generate an .xls?)

Anyway, a remote user says that when he tries to use the buttons,
the generated CSV is completely blank, except for what he says
are a couple of cyrillic letters in the first few cells.

Has anyone ever encountered this issue before?
I tried to search a little in the forum, with no success.

Replies

  • janiscmbpjaniscmbp Posts: 6Questions: 0Answers: 0
    Hi, I had this with a table of 4600 rows and ~10 columns on XP/IE. IE halted for minutes, and then produced what you describe. IE was rather shocked after that.

    I would like to have a graceful handling of situations like this, but I think it is not an easy task, as YMMV. Win7 has no performance problems with any of the browsers I have tested.

    As why not create xls, Allan has explained that elsewhere (many versions of Excel, errors/notificatiuons confusing users). CSV is actually more to my liking. Windows opens it by default with Excel. As it is a text file, you can open it with any editor. In localised environments Excel is a pain, as it will drop leading zeros from text with only numeric characters, interpret some numbers as dates etc. You can import csv file to excel and define encoding and column types.
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