Thursday, January 5, 2006 Robert Stapleton wrote: > Knowing that you are all good guys, you would do the general public an > immense favor if you developed a reliable conversion from Quattro Pro 9 to > your software. The software community, including Corel, has turned its back > on QP9. Myself and apparently may others are stuck with large spreadsheets > created in QP9, or as in my case, blindly converted from an earlier QP > version to QP9 without adequate evaluation. Of course the earlier files > were deleted after some initial checks, only to find out later how unstable > the QP9 is. Corel had a website with the last general bug fix for QP9 that > categorically stated that QP9 would convert > itself/export into Excel2000. > It categorically would not. Corel categorically would not respond to > questions on this topic.
Have you tried the peer support groups over at news://cnews.corel.com ? There are some very helpful people over there, and I'm sure that if you describe the problem in detail (like what kind of problem are you having with the conversions, if you indeed have the latest patch to CorelOffice 2000 (i.e. SP4 which cannot be downloaded from the internet due to the architectural changes that were required to make it work with Windows NT & XP), etc): if there is a solution, they're very likely to know about it :) Secondly, you mention that you have some large spreadsheets. How large? QuattroPro can handle something like a million lines, but Excel and Calc are limited to 65 thousand, so if your sheets have more than that they simply cannot be converted and you would need to split them before you could pass them to any other program. Thirdly, OOo does not currently have import filters for the QuattroPro format, so you must find a middle ground (i.e. a format which QuattroPro can export to and which OOo can import from). Some older version of Excel or Lotus, possibly (refer to the QuattroPro newsgroups I mentioned above if you have problems exporting from QP). At worst, as a last resort you may want to give CSV (Comma Separated Values) a try. Beware that it will only transfer data, no formulas or formatting. Hope this helps, and feel free to ask for more information as needed. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
