Enabling "tab" as the delimiter has nothing to do with the problem. The file isn't CSV or tab-separated-variable; it's XML conforming to the "SpreadsheetML" schema. When I rename it to ".xml" and open it with OpenOffice, I don't see any option in the interface to enable or disable "tab" as a delimiter.
One difference I notice between the BIRT-produced file and a file re- saved from Excel is that BIRT puts whitespace between the <Cell> and <Data> tags. OOo produces a file without any whitespace at all. However, whitespace there shouldn't matter; Excel doesn't care about it. ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Incomplete -- OO calc adds spurious columns to Office 2003 XML files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs