RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread Bruce Carlson
Bruce Carlson wrote: > > Sending an .xls version and asking the person on the other end to keep > the document in that format is a valid point and can be substantiated > by the fact that even different versions of MSO have trouble reading > each other's version of .xlsx formats. Try swapping a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread At0mic
Bruce Carlson wrote: > > Sending an .xls version and asking the person on the other end to keep the > document in that format is a valid point and can be substantiated by the > fact that even different versions of MSO have trouble reading each other's > version of .xlsx formats. Try swapping an .

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 08/09/2011 14:35, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions ha scritto: On 09/08/2011 01:22 AM, At0mic wrote: e-letter wrote: Solution #1: Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange spreadsheets in that format. Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread Chris Morgan
e-letter wrote: Solution #1: Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange spreadsheets in that format. Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is discovered between m$ hardware and software,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 09/08/2011 02:38 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote: e-letter wrote: Solution #1: Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange spreadsheets in that format. Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 09/08/2011 01:22 AM, At0mic wrote: e-letter wrote: Solution #1: Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange spreadsheets in that format. Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is discov

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-08 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 08.09.2011 00:07, e-letter wrote: Would be interested to hear your explanation why other m$ formats are _not_ against the interests of LO (i.e. increased _visible_ usage of odt. Using LO to write m$ formats should be considered invisible usage, of what benefit exactly?). If not for collabo

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-07 Thread Bruce Carlson
e-letter wrote: > >> Solution #1: >> Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange >> spreadsheets in that format. >> > > Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the > suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is > discovered between m$

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-07 Thread At0mic
e-letter wrote: > >> Solution #1: >> Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange >> spreadsheets in that format. >> > > Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the > suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is > discovered between m$ ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-07 Thread e-letter
On 07/09/2011, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote: ... >> >> Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to >> improve the xlsx saving abilities of Calc? >> To reiterate, the priority for calc is improvement in native file format behaviour. If yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-07 Thread Onyeibo Oku
+1 to freedom! - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: Andreas Säger Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:05:54 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

2011-09-07 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote: I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any errors. Should I file a bu