On Thu January 5 2006 06:26, + 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. > > I cannot find any conversion software to convert my QP9 (.qpw) files to an > Excel version that preserves all the attributes. If you cannot or will not > build this conversion into OpenOrg, can you refer me to a reasonably priced > conversion package that will?
I think that work is being done on a convertor for QPro but am uynsure which versions it will work for. Also as you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sat January 7 2006 12:03, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > 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. Please reply to [email protected] only. Normally [email protected] is the best list to ask questions about using OpenOffice.org -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
