Reinstall gnumeric. In gnumeric, open a file in gnumeric file format.
File > Save as > File type: > MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP > Save There is also a command line converter ssconvert. E.G. ssconvert foo.gnumeric foo.xls Far too many options. Jim On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Hal Ashburner <h...@ashburner.info> wrote: > > > > > > On 29/Aug/2011, at 5:38 PM, Chris Cox wrote: > > Dear developers, I’m just an average computer user who decided to download > the program as an alternative to MS Excel 2003. Gnumeric itself works 100% > but I’ve encountered a problem as follows:-**** > ** ** > 1) I’ve found that all the previous Excel worksheets saved in my docs > have been converted to Gnumeric file format.**** > ** ** > 2) This in itself is not a problem on my pc but when I wish to send an > XLS workbook created in Excel 2003 as an email attachment, this defaults to > Gnumeric XLS file. As I understand it, this would mean the recipient of the > mail would have to have Gnumeric installed to be able to open the file?*** > * > ** ** > 3) Is there a way for me to create Gnumeric files only for those > spreadsheets created using the software and vice versa for MS Excel? Ie I > wish to keep the formats separate from one another.**** > ** ** > 4) I’ve tried uninstalling Gnumeric but when I do, the XLS files in My > Docs still appear as Gnumeric flies irrespective of whether or not they are > or were previously created as MS Excel files.**** > ** ** > For your guidance I have the following installed:-**** > ** ** > > - Windows XP**** > - MS Office Professional Edition 2003**** > > ** ** > Many thanks for you kind assistance. > > > > Hi Chris, > I think I understand what is going on here. > > There are two different and distinct things we need to be aware of. > > 1) the file format. Gnumeric can create, read and write MS Excel compatible > files with the .xls extension. eg myfile.xls > Gnumeric can also create files using its own file format, these have the > .gnumeric extension eg myfile.gnumeric these are much more betterer for a > bazillion reasons but you can't use it if you want excel to be able to open > and read the files you're creating and modifying in gnumeric. > > 2) Windows has a thing called "File Associations" this is what windows uses > to know what program to start when you open a file. e.g. if you open a file > called myfile.txt it launches notepad and opens the file using notepad. > With Office installed it sets default file associations for .xls to excel > and .doc to Word. > These file associations are only suggestions, they can be changed and > overridden. Eg if the default spreadsheet is Excel such that double clicking > an .xls file launches excel you can still launch the gnumeric program and > open that same file with gnumeric regardless of the file association. > > I think 2 is your issue. If you look up your windows documentation on how > to set file associations you can change it and it should make no difference > as to whether you can open the file with Excel. > > You should test this by creating an .xls file with excel, then opening it > with gnumeric, then create another spreadsheet with gnumeric (being sure to > save it as an excel compatible file) and checking you can open that in > excel. > > This way you won't have any issues with sharing files with other people > unfortunate enough to still be using the vastly inferior spreadsheet from > microsoft. > > All the best, > > Hal Ashburner > > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > gnumeric-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > > -- Kindness Works! Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA 12897A Grays Pointe Road, Fairfax, Va 22033 38.8778239, -77.392696 http://ls.net
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