I think Calc defaults to zoom of 60% when the View mode is Page instead of Normal.
On March 8, 2014 6:38:23 PM PST, Tom Williams <tomd...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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. > > Peace... > > Tom > > -- > /When we dance, you have a way with me, > Stay with me... Sway with me.../ > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
