Well, Excel has done this since at least version 2000 or so, and OO.o
calc, like the rest of the suite, tries to mimics most of MSO's
functionality; also, this worked just fine in OO.o 2.4.
I would say this is a regression, so I reported this at:
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Both MS Excel and oo.o 2.4.x can open the attached HTML file (with XLS
extension) correctly, but for whatever reason, Lucid's oo.o (3.2)
renders the file horribly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: openoffice.org-core
** Attachment added: Sample files.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44312313/files.zip
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44310474/Dependencies.txt
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openoffice.org calc renders HTML file horribly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564061
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
oracle lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release:8.04
oracle apt-cache policy evince
evince:
Installed: 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2.22.2-0ubuntu2 0
500
** Attachment added: Source doc, generated PDF, rendering screenshots.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27900795/Evince%20incorrect%20rendering.zip
** Tags added: incorrect
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Incorrect rendering when using paragraph style
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387016
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** Attachment added: OO.o Writer rendering screenshot
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27910176/OO.o%20Writer%20rendering.png
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Incorrect rendering when using paragraph style
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387016
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