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 bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to improve
the xlsx saving abilities of Calc?
Cheers,
Roelof
Please consider this when you collaborate with users of MS Office (Excel
in this particular case):
- All Excel users can open xls.
- Calc and xls have more than a decade of common history, thus xls is
supported by Calc almost perfectly, much better than the new shit.
- Any new features that may be saved in the new xlsx format do not exist
in any software other than Excel. In other words: xlsx may include
features you can not even see in Calc or errors that can not be fixed in
Calc.
- Saving xlsx in Calc helps MS to spread a file format that has been
bribed through the standardization boards to fight the existing ODF
standard (odt, ods, odp, odg).
- For MS incompatibility is a feature.
"Compatibility" can not be a one-way street.
Solution #1:
Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange
spreadsheets in that format.
Solution #2:
They can install LibreOffice side by side with their usual office suite.
Solution #3:
http://www.freeware-downloads.org/download/programm.php?pro=sun-odf-plugin
makes their office suite fully ODF aware.
On top of all this, I am convinced that LibreOffice must not write MS
OOXML. This is an anti-feature against our own interests.
Greetings,
Andreas
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