Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread James Knott
On 04/23/2015 10:47 AM, Tom Davies wrote: MSO 2013 was the first that allowed people to save in strict but the resultant files don't seem to be able to be opened in any version of MS Office. Those files are probably write only. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, i don't know a good way around that :( other than the way you already use! :)) People used to be quite happy with the idea of downloading Adobe Acrobat to read Pdfs with. It used to be that almost any website that shared any kind of document tended to only have them as Pdfs and also

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread Ramon Tavarez
Hi: Thanks for your attention. The fact with this file is that can't be supported by .XLS format, and my coworkers doesn't work with LibO, and that is the only way I can use to keep in touch with them and their jobs. It may be a pain .. ... ... , but while it work I'll keep using this method to

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The XlsX, and other OOXML formats are notoriously unreliable. Each different version of MS Office uses slightly different versions. There are at least 3 different transitional versions of the format and they are not always compatible with each other. If you take the XlsX that was saved by

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread Cley Faye
Discussion about open formats aside, I've looked at the file and it looks like when saving as xlsx each sheet grow huge (some goes to ~20MB before compression). Could you also post the xlsx file obtained when saving with MSO, for comparison? My guess is that either LO saves *a lot* of empty/dummy

[libreoffice-users] [Calc, LibO 4.4] Bug on .ODS to .XLSX file conversion?

2015-04-23 Thread RamonTavarez
Hi: I've experienced the following issue: The file attached is an .ODS file (1,976 KB). When seved as .XLSX file it expands to more than 15 MB. If the new .XLSX files is oppened with MSOffice 2013 it will ask for recovery of information within the file, after that if we save the recovered