I wish to echo the comments made here about the rather clunky EXPORT function within Logbook Pro. I also have Open Office, including the spreadsheet program that uses standard Excel XLS files, but LBP will not export to an Excel file. Evidently it doesn't recognize Open Office Calc as an Excel clone. There are a lot of us out here who do NOT like and do not use Microsoft products, but it appears that this export function has been designed to work ONLY with Microsoft Excel. Not good.
Of the export options that do work I find that there is no difference at all between a CSV file and a TXT file. Both are non-standard, comma-delimited text, which means that neither format will work if you have commas in your data, which I do. The data is delimited with ONLY a comma, but a "standard" comma-delimited file is delimited with quotes and commas, like this: "," If there are commas within the data and this delimiter is used, then the commas in the data don't cause a problem. You should also provide other standard delimiter options, such as TAB.
I am trying to export data because I find the Logbook Pro custom report generator to be impossible to figure out. I have tried to build a custom columnar report with it and no matter what I try, I always end up with a Jepp Logbook page. There is nothing in the help file that teaches how to build a custom report. Therefore I want to export data from LBP into Filemaker Pro, where I can easily build new reports by sorting and formatting the data into something more useful than a Jepp logbook page. However, I cannot do that because:
1) LBP will NOT export an Excel file, even though it is one of the offered options.
2) Both "text" formats (TXT and CSV) are comma-delimited.
3) There are no options offered for using another delimiter.
4) There are commas in my data, therefore the exported data is useless.
When will we see a new version of this program that will either export an Excel file or offer other delimiter options?