Glen Turner wrote: > On 24/09/09 22:37, Chris Allen wrote: >> I have lately acquired a .xlsx spreadsheet from MS Office 2007 and tried >> to process same in Open Office (3.0.1) but cannot open it. >> >> Is there a logical reason for this? Is there a work around for it? > > I had thought that OpenOffice.org 3 and later supported .xlsx. To check > this I just exported a spreadsheet from Office 2007 on Windows Xp and > OpenOffice 3.1.1 on Fedora 11 opened it just fine, modulo substitution > of fonts. >
Some distributions don't include this compatibility because it's Novell sponsored but this version http://www.go-oo.org/ has it and explains the specifics. Byron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
