On Sunday 24 July 2005 08:34, Ottar Grimstad wrote:
> I have just installed Open Office and have some documents made by
> Microsoft Office that I need to continue working on in OpenOffice.
>
> I have experienced a very serious problem when trying to open a Excel .xlw
> file. On opening the file I was presented with the ASCII-filter, and
> instead of a worksheet I got 2 pages of a textdocument with mostly signs
> and numbers. I closed the document without saving. Nontheless my original
> 22K document was now reduced in size to less than 1k.
>
> I have opened .xls files, .doc files and .pps files without problems.
>
> I am using Open Office 1.1.3 translated to norwegian (nynorsk)
What type of file is a ".xlw" ?
Can you try changing the extension of the file to be ".xls" to see if this
helps ?
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