On 03/08/2014 06:15 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 17:18 08/03/2014 -0800, Tom Williams wrote: >> A friend of mine has LibreOffice 4.2.1 installed alongside MS Office >> 2010 Starter Edition on his Windows 7 system. He received an Excel >> spreadsheet via email which he can open just fine in both Excel and >> Calc. The problem is when he opens the file in Calc, it opens with >> the page zoom set to 60%. When he opens the file in Excel, it opens >> with page zoom set to 100%. Because of this, he didn't think he >> could edit the file in Calc since he couldn't read the info. He >> wasn't aware of the page zoom capability of either application. :) > > Experimentation suggests that the zoom factor in use when the document > file is saved is stored in the document, with the effect that it can > be reopened with the same appearance. This is the case whether the > document is saved as .xls, .xlsx, or .ods. Calc appears to respect > the saved zoom factor in each case, but Microsoft Office 2010, whilst > it respects the zoom saved in .xls and .xlsx files, ignores that in > .ods files - even when saved by Microsoft Office itself. > >> Any ideas as to why Calc would open the spreadsheet with a page zoom >> of 60%? > > Presumably it was being displayed at a zoom factor of 60% and was > saved as an .ods file. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > Thanks for the information. I'll do some experimentation with the particular file in question and see what happens.
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