[Gvsig_english] editing properties of attribute tables in Open Office

[Benjamin Ducke]

Hi Wolfgang,

I have done attribute table editing with Open Office Calc in the
past and it worked well. Changing data types as you suggested
works and is simple, encoding (UTF) can also be set explicitely.
The only limit is the number of records. Since version 3.0,
OOo Calc can handle ca. 65,000 lines, before that it was only 
half as many.

Ben

Wolfgang Qual wrote:
> Dear list,
> a short question on attribute tables: is it recommended to use Open 
> Office Calc to edit attribute tables of shapefiles? For example,
> I would like to remove decimal places of some columns - Calc allows the 
> user to edit the field properties by changing the values of the
> values in the first line (example: a column has a definiton for 
> numerical values with a length of 18 and 6 decimal places: 
> name_column,N,18,6 --> name_column,N,18,0 in order to get rid of the 
> decimals...).
> 
> Any comments are welcome.
> Best,
> Wolfgang
> 


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