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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 29 16:22:10 -0700 2005 ------- Here, we are not in the case of 11802 and 45469. We are talking about more than just a tab-delimited text file, but one that has the exact same extension (or mimetype) as a MS-Excel file. Such a file _IS_ an Excel file for all intents and purposes. The default behaviour of OOo with regards to _all_ MS Excel files (which Excel opens directly of course) is to open them directly in OOo-calc. The user should not have to tweak _any_ preference for that, it should be the default behaviour. So this really is a bug. Please also note that the suggestion in 11802 and 45469to use CSV rather than tab-delimited .xls files is _bogus_ because Excel behaves horribly across locales (In French, for example, CSV means semicolon-separated-values, so opening a french CSV in a en_US locale makes a complete mess). Excel is the real the culprit there, but the point is that CSV is a _bad_ idea to exchange unformatted spreadsheets if one wants to be interoperable with Excel. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
