[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have succeeded in convincing my company management to switch to OOo 2.2.1 > in > stead of M$-Office XP Pro. In the mean time, we can buy a dual core AMD 64 > bit system for less than what M$-Office Pro. costs. > > We are now in a changeover situation, where, for now, only the new PC's are > installed with OOo 2.2.1. The rest will use the current licensed M$ Office > 2003 Pro till it will be updated; not to M$ but to OOo. Also, 90 % of our > customers send us M$-Office Documents, which means we have to work with the > M$ doc and xls formats when we exchange files to the PC's with M$-Office, and > our customers. (With the external world all documents will be converted to > PDF's, but most customers using M$-Office do not have the great save to PDF > as OOo has) > > Some Word documents use embedded spreadsheet (Excel) objects, i.e. when the > object is clicked upon, excel opens and the calculations are made for the > entries as they are entered. When the Excel sheet is closed, the data is put > into the Word document as a table with the calculated contents. > > OOo Writer and Calc are set to use M$ document format as the default format > which they are "saved as", till all have the OOo installation. > > One PC has both M$-Office 2003 and OOo 2.2.1 installed. When the Word > document > with the embedded Excel table is opened by OOo, it automatically uses Excel > to change the embedded Excel table successfully. > > The new PC has _no_ M$-office on it, just OOo 2.2.1. When the same document > is > opened with the embedded Excel/Spreadsheet object, it can be read in Calc, > but it is RO. With Calc the embedded table cannot be changed. > > Is there some setup necessary to allow Calc to do the editing in the embedded > Excel table?
Tools-Options-Load/Save-MicrosoftOffice Make sure that the option to convert objects on Load and Save is set for all formats. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
