John Gregson <jfgregson <at> shaw.ca> writes:
>
> First, I want to thank all who replied to to my first Posting.
> I'm using Win7
> Libre Office 3.4.4
>
> I can now open some of the MS Works, Word Processor files (.WPS)
> However, I find that any Works file .wps; that has a Table in it will
> not open in Libre Office.
> Am I missing something?
>
Hello John,
yes, unfortunately, the library libwps (used in LibreOffice) does
not actually know how to read a table structure ; so normally,
a file which contains some tables must be converted in a new
file without any table.
This functionality is pretty difficult to add because :
- with the oldest versions of MS Works, a table seems to be
stored in a WKS attachment ; so first, we will need to
decode the WKS format :-)
- with the newer versions of MS Works, even if for each table,
it seems possible to find the zones of text which appear
in its cells, retrieving the table structure (ie. finding the
position of each cell in the table, ... ) seems difficult :-~
Osnola.
PS: if you want to add a bug/request for this functionality, the
best place is probably http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwps/
( tracker menu )...
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