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Issue #:|52635
Summary:|TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension should
|open in Spreadsheet application
Component:|Spreadsheet
Version:|OOo 1.1.3
Platform:|All
URL:|
OS/Version:|All
Status:|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard:|
Keywords:|
Resolution:|
Issue type:|DEFECT
Priority:|P3
Subcomponent:|open-import
Assigned to:|spreadsheet
Reported by:|philippe_rigault
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 29 10:49:09 -0700
2005 -------
TAB-delimited text files with .xls extension have always been loadable
directly in MS Excel as a regular Workbook.
This is a _great_ thing, for it has been the favored way by many to
interchange unformatted spreadsheets across operating systems (avoiding in
particular the horrible inconsistencies with csv across different
language/countries).
Openoffice.org behaviour with such files is to force opening them in the word
processor (OOo-writer), even if one does an Open/Import from the Spreadsheet
application (OOo-calc). This is very wrong because it is both useless (no
longer considered a table/spreadsheet) and incompatible with standard MS Excel
behaviour with its _own_ file formats.
Correct behaviour is to open _directly_ TAB-delimited text files with .xls
extension in the spreadsheet application. Directly means bypassing the
separator-recognition step (it must be tab if the file is text and the
extension is xls).
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