Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-07 Thread e-letter
On 07/02/2014, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I no longer follow these lists, so I'm of limited help. If gnumeric produces an ods file, Excel 2013 should attempt to read it. However, the format you gave as an example is not ODF and I am doubtful. I don't have gnumeric, so

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread e-letter
] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 05:20 To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure e-letter wrote: after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods spreadsheets, so use that format please!!!) , the formulas were lost, leaving only

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread e-letter
On 06/02/2014, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: As an alternative, can anyone confirm if formulae are kept in xml formatted spreadsheets, for example of gnumeric or LO calc xml spreadsheets are imported by m$? For example simple formula from gnumeric: ... gnm:Cells gnm:Cell

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2014-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think they fixed the problem in MS Office 2013. Prior to that for spreadsheets in ODF formats MS Office would apparently lose the formula and leave values as a fixed. Errr, i think there is a lot more there but i only managed to make sense of the last paragraph. Hopefully others can

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread e-letter
On 23/01/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: ODF 1.0/1.1 did not specify a standard for spreadsheet formulas. Formulas were left implementation-specific. Microsoft did not support the OpenOffice.org-specific formulas. Instead, they used Excel-specific formulas in ODF

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
inp...@gmail.com To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com; LibreOffice users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2013, 9:02 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure On 23/01/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Hi:) Yes. With regards to paragraph 1 with the amendment that i think you mean MSO 2010 rather than the non-existent MSO 2012. There is a version for Mac called 2011 but that is really just 2010 redone for Mac and it takes them about a year to do that. MSO just doesn't

RE: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-letter [mailto:inp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 01:02 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: James Knott; LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure On 23/01/2013, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: ODF 1.0/1.1 did

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi e-letter, e-letter schrieb: Readers, Despite the opinion of the original poster (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113), the loss in information is not the fault of LO, but m$, who claim not to support such compatibility

RE: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure

2013-01-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: [libreoffice-users] how to tell m$ about ods formula behaviour failure e-letter wrote: after opening in m$ excel 2010 (yes, m$ can open ods spreadsheets, so use that format please!!!) , the formulas were lost, leaving only the result values in the spreadsheet cells. Instead of reporting another