https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145515
Bug ID: 145515
Summary: Does LibreOffice alter xls files such that Excel 2004
must be force-quit?
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: macOS (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Version: 7.1.5.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 85f04e9f809797b8199d13c421bd8a2b025d52b5
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
I have used the LibreOffice spreadsheet function, successfully, to modify
some years-old Excel-2004 xls files, on disk attached to my Mac (Mojave).
I occasionally open my xls files in a virtualbox instance under Snow
Leopard, and/or in an older iMac also with Snow Leopard.
Up until now, this has all always worked in all of these environments.
But, now in those 10.6.8 environments, when I try to operate further on
those xls files (that I had recently modified with LibreOffice) and then save,
Excel locks up requiring a force-quit. If I restart Excel in SL, the files
reopen, and the app freezes again. It’s not a full freeze, sometimes I have
been able to save the file to desktop with a new name. But little confidence in
the result!
Also I note that the sheets open in a smaller than ordinary size, tucked
up at the upper left corner of the window.
This is quite frustrating, as LibreOffice is decidely not smooth at
modifying complex charts, so I prefer going to the vintage invironment for
tweaks.
Is there a way to “clean up” whatever is happening to the files that
causes this behavior, or some setting that I am missing? I’ve been using Excel
on Mac since 1984, and never before encountered this kind of behavior.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a MacOS Excel-2004 (v.111101) xls file in LibreOffice (in MacOS 10.14.6
Mojave)
2. modify the data, save as xls
3. open the xls file in Excel 2004 (in Snow Leopard), enter data in a cell, try
to save
4. see Excel inoperable, requires force-quit
Actual Results:
Excel will not allow processing the file, becomes non-responsive and must be
force-quit.
Experienced this both in a virtual box instance on Mojave, and on a different
computer.
Expected Results:
be able to operate further on the xls file in Excel 2004.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
OpenGL enabled: Yes
Additional Info:
We want the expected behavior, because many graphs in our existing xls files
are difficult/impossible to maintain in LibreOffice.
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