[TriLUG] openoffice question

[Owen Berry]

I can't explain to you why it's not working, but here is an alternative.
Run this line of bash script and then open ip.csv with oocalc.

for (( i = 1; i <= 254; i++ )); do echo 192.168.1.$i; done > ip.csv

Owen

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:25 -0500, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Any openoffice whiz-kids able to 'splain this to me?
> 
> I have used excel in years past to create a quick list of sequential IP
> addresses by typing the first and then dragging that cell to generate
> the next 254.
> 
> In openoffice, this same procedure increments the value of the first
> octet rather than the fourth. 
> 
> Do I need to create some custom formatting somewhere to recognize and
> treat IP addresses in a useful way?  Surely I'm not the first person to
> encounter this with openoffice.  
>