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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 8 13:31:01 -0700 2006 ------- I confirm that setting associations of XLS to scalc.exe solve the problem reported. Also I will copy here an email received by me from Hoffmann Gisbert. Maybe some of you already received a copy. He has a point in it! Personally I'm about to loose other client because of this issue. -- begin cite I write to you because I do not want to create an issue for the same problen again (and because I would need a training before I could create an issue). Fact is that certain xls-files are correctly opened in Excel while with OO 2.x and SO8 they are opened with Writer. Details are described in the issues. Obviously this is a problem discussed since years (Issue 8967). The consequences seem to be not clear to you. The arguments of the developers are that MS does not show the correct behavior, but OO 2.x or SO 8 do. OO/SO should show the same behavior like MS, even if its wrong. No matter what the W3C XML specifications are. Your will not force MS and the provider of reporting tools (see below) to act as your want and as it would be correct in your opinion. We (and you should also) want to replace MS. All reporting-tools in the BI-market (so do Crystal Reports, Cognos ReportNet, Information Builders etc.) provide xls-output in the format described in the issues. This output opens Excel automatically and correct, so the user can further manipulate the output as needed. We can manage, that these tools start OO/SO instead of Excel. But then its opened in Writer or Writer/Web respectively. The user can try to cut the output in Writer, start a Calc-document and paste it into Calc, headers and footers seperate from the main page, and adust all cells. No user will accept this crippled way to work. It worked correct until SO 6/OO 1.x. For your information: I fighted more than 2 years now to replace MS with OO/SO. The result of your useless discussions for years now is that I lost the run and our company has to update more than 500 MS-Licences. Thats it. Good night OO/SO. --end of cite --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
