On 03/28/2013 01:23 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
So it meant that instead of discovering a bug with LibreOffice it was a 
discovered  problem with the 3rd party's website and their strange way of 
setting up their downloads.

The question was whether reporting a bug against LibreOffice might improve LibreOffice's 
handling of Xls files but the answer to that is just "No" and that solves the 
problem.
Regards from
Tom :)

IMHO it not necessarily a bug but certainly a feature request.



________________________________
From: Tim Lloyd <[email protected]>
To: nvrk <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 3:23
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] calc problem

It was not a matter of preferences. It was because calc could not open a
.XLS file. On further investigation it was found that it is not an XLS
file hence the problem

Cheers
On 03/28/2013 01:48 PM, nvrk wrote:
Is there a reason why the .xls file version is preferred to the .csv
version from the afr.com site?
nvsoar

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Michael Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

       Hi, before I log this as a bug I would like to know whether anyone
       has seen it before/potential fix identified.

       I normally use Fedora linux and I download (.XLS) share tables
       from a financial newspaper here in Oz. Yesterday I inadvertently
       clicked on the wrong table by accident and tried to open it. Calc
       locked up! No problem with the files I normally look at, Calc
       opened them fine.

       So I tried again today and waited for an error - "LibreOffice
       4.0.1.2 General input/output error". So I hopped over to the
       windows PC and tried LO portable. Same error. The error was
       repeated whether I tried to open directly from the website or if I
       saved to disk and then attempted to open the file. MS Excel has no
       problems.

       The file in question is accessible using this link:

       http://www.afr.com/share_tables/

       Just click on the xls link next to "Warrant Market"

       Any comments?

       Cheers


Hi Tim,

Since you use Fedora Linux, maybe you can try gnumeric as a temporary
alternative.

Hope it helps and regards,

Michael

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