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-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:05:54 To: <users@global.libreoffice.org> Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug? Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote: > I got a corrupted Excel xlsx file when I opened and subsequently saved it > using LibreOffice Calc. When I open it in Excel the message is "Excel found > unreadable content [...]", but opening it again in Calc does not produce any > errors. > > Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to improve > the xlsx saving abilities of Calc? > > Cheers, > Roelof > Please consider this when you collaborate with users of MS Office (Excel in this particular case): - All Excel users can open xls. - Calc and xls have more than a decade of common history, thus xls is supported by Calc almost perfectly, much better than the new shit. - Any new features that may be saved in the new xlsx format do not exist in any software other than Excel. In other words: xlsx may include features you can not even see in Calc or errors that can not be fixed in Calc. - Saving xlsx in Calc helps MS to spread a file format that has been bribed through the standardization boards to fight the existing ODF standard (odt, ods, odp, odg). - For MS incompatibility is a feature. "Compatibility" can not be a one-way street. Solution #1: Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange spreadsheets in that format. Solution #2: They can install LibreOffice side by side with their usual office suite. Solution #3: http://www.freeware-downloads.org/download/programm.php?pro=sun-odf-plugin makes their office suite fully ODF aware. On top of all this, I am convinced that LibreOffice must not write MS OOXML. This is an anti-feature against our own interests. Greetings, Andreas -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
