[sc-issues] [Issue 52635] TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension should open in Spreadsheet application
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52635 User fst changed the following: What|Old value |New value Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 8 03:08:36 -0700 2005 --- and closed - 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]
[sc-issues] [Issue 52635] TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension should open in Spreadsheet application
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52635 User regina changed the following: What|Old value |New value Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 30 05:19:18 -0700 2005 --- Faking the extension will not change the file type. For example, you cannot open such a file in Microsoft Excel 97 Viewer and also the excel import filter of OOo will fail. You can set the extension to what you want, the file type will remain text. To be an excel-file it needs a specific header and coding in a specific way. The file type detection of OOo is designed not to use the extension but the real file type. So it works as designed and therefore is no defect. You can force OOo to open it in Calc, when you select the correct filter in the file open dialog. But be aware the correct filter is not Excel but Text csv. If you don't like this behavior (as other people who use SAP), you have to write an enhancement. There are already two enhancements which concern with this problem, issue 8967 and issue 23078. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 23078 *** - 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]
[sc-issues] [Issue 52635] TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension should open in Spreadsheet application
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52635 User regina changed the following: What|Old value |New value CC|''|'regina' Keywords| |oooqa --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 29 15:41:44 -0700 2005 --- Please read the discussion in issue 11802 and issue 45469. This issue is not a defect and as enhancement, I guess, it will be set to wontfix by the developers. - 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]
[sc-issues] [Issue 52635] TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension should open in Spreadsheet application
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52635 --- 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]
