Does the HTML open correctly in Firefox? If not, you've got badly formed, mangled HTML, and I don't see why Gnumeric should bother opening it more correctly than FireFox. "Created by Excel" does not seem sufficient reason to me, I could be wrong. What do the developers think?
Uri David ----- Original Message ----- From: Oliver Burnett-Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:45 pm Subject: Re: HTML encoded spreadsheets? > David Stanaway wrote: > > Maybe my vendor is going out of their way to make a dodgy > > file? EG, save as web page, then renaming the file to .xls and > ignoring> the warning. > > From your description of what you're receiving, it sounds like > they are > going (in Excel) 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> 'Mail recipient'. > This > starts a new message in Outlook, converting the current spreadsheet > to > HTML and bunging it in the message body. The resulting message is > useless even if you have Excel. > > [Note, I don't have Excel here so can't check this, but it sounds > like > the type of format you get from this] > > The simplest way to fix this is by taking your clue stick and > gently > persuading them to use 'File' menu -> 'Send to...' -> Mail > recipient (as > attachment)' instead. > > - olly > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
