Can I use AW6 to open up a spread sheet, labled .txt ??

Question

I received an important document from the county elections office today. I need to access the data for my campaign (local city elections).
It came with this note:
***Attached is the xxxxxx City voter file with voter history. It is a .txt format which can be opened with Access or Excel. There are 5,744 records.****
When I open, it opens by default with TEXT EDIT and I can see all the data (addresses, voting records, etc.). But not very useful format to me.
I am mostly an APPLE WORKS person...I like and am use to u sing AW. Is there a way I can put this into a an AW DB (prefer) or Spread Sheet so I can sort, and use the data? (Make address lists, labels, etc.)
This is new to me..
JON
PS: When I do the GET INFO on this doc, it says it is a Plain TEx Doc. Wish to make it a AW DB if I can.

Answer 1

By default, a new AppleWorks spreadsheet only has 500 rows. You can increase this to as much as 256 Columns by 16,384 Rows in Format > Document. Rather than pasting into an AppleWorks spreadsheet, use the Open dialog which will automatically create the correct number of rows. The same with a database. If you create the database this way, you will have to go back & use define fields to rename them.